Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, April 9, 1863

Aroused and ordered to the breastworks this morning at half-past three o'clock, and as usual nothing happened. "Our squad" is on picket for the next twenty-four hours, leaving camp at eight o'clock. The night relief turn in at the old foundry, and will have nothing to do but sleep till six o'clock in the evening. Some could not sleep. Tucker and Whitney left early, starting for a scout down the river, coming back late, wet and hungry, and having seen nothing. Allen and Pettingill started in another direction, and all they reported was the finding of a lot of cord-wood.

SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, p. 47