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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