Going to the front.
At ten o'clock P. M., General Sedgwick ordered Captain Tompkins to take
his battery to the Redoubt No. 7, to cover the finishing of Battery No. 8. The
rebels commenced heavy shelling, to which we replied vigorously. Sections of
Batteries B and G were also engaged in it. They returned to their camps at
nightfall. We fell back in reserve, supported by the Fifteenth Regiment
Massachusetts volunteers.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, pp. 40-1
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