Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, July 4, 1863

In position all day and night. Rained all afternoon and night. Went over on the battle-field in the afternoon, and saw a great number of the dead of both armies.

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. 277

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