Started at five
A.M.; marched through Buckeyetown, Md. We passed a great many fields of wheat
and corn. The roads were muddy. Crossed the Monocacy River. Marched fifteen
miles. A year ago to-day was the battle of Gaines's Mills.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 276
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