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Friday, December 5, 2025

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, Sunday, June 21, 1863

Reveille sounded at one A.M. Left camp at three A.M., to go on reconnoissance with the cavalry. Fell in with them and the flying-artillery, and marched to Middleburg, and went into position on the outskirts of the town. Our cavalry fought the rebel cavalry all day, and drove them to Ashby's Gap. Marched six miles.

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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