At three o'clock P.
М., orders came for our Parrott guns to advance to within a mile of the enemy;
when, getting in sight of the rebels, we were saluted by a twelve-pound shot,
the only fired at us this day. The sections divided, the guns were unlimbered.
We kept up a desultory fire until sunset. The guns were sighted for the night.
The order given to fire one gun every thirty minutes at the enemy's works,
which was carried out.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 39
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