Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, July 15, 1863

Reveille at three A.M.; started at four; marched through Kediesville and over South Mountain, and went into camp at eight P.M. It rained in the afternoon, and a lot of horses gave out. It was the hardest march in the campaign. Twenty 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. 278

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