An engagement going on near Warwick Creek. Our division is ordered forward. We advanced to within two miles of the rebels' first line. T...

Our two howitzers go to the front. Considerable fighting was going on during the night. Our four Parrott guns ready to march at a minute...

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,...

A brisk cannonade, kept up since daylight from our side, without response from the enemy. By six o'clock P. M. the enemy fired three tim...

The rebel infantry fired several heavy volleys into our lines, doing no damage however. Generals Sumner, Sedgwick and Gorman inspected the l...

Camp Scott. The Vermont brigade, under General Smith, was defeated at Warwick Creek. Temporary suspension of beating drums, sounding the bug...

At nine o'clock A. M. we went to the front. The enemy fired twice at our arrival. We did not respond. In the evening we fell back to the...

At the front. The enemy fired twice in the morning, and several times in the evening. Fire returned in both cases. At dark we fell back agai...

At the front. We were relieved at nine o'clock A. M., by Battery B. News arrived of McDowell's occupation of Fredericksburg. Heavy c...

Fighting going on.  Our  battery was ordered to the front. At our arrival, fighting closed, and we went back to camp. SOURCE: Theodore Rei...

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 t...

At daylight we took position in Battery No. 8, supported by one company of telescope-rifle sharp-shooters. The rebels kept up a heavy fire a...

Battery No. 8. We were relieved in the morning by Battery B. Heavy cannonading in the night. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery...

Two French men-of-war and the Monitor, close to the Onrust. Eighteen men from the centre section were sent to Hampton Roads in a small boat,...

Returned to Hampton at daylight. The battery and horses were unloaded at once. General Sedgwick ordered the battery to go to camp outside of...

Hampton Roads. Great concentration of McClellan's army. Our battery has to give up the tents. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Ba...

The Second Corps on the move. Started by eight o'clock A. M.; by four o'clock we went into park at Big Bethel, to camp for the night...

Marched at daybreak. Cannonading going on in front of Yorktown. General McClellan passed the line amidst great cheering of the troops. Stron...

Great scarcity of food. Our battery went on a reconnoisance with General Burns' brigade. Only the pieces were taken along, with eight ho...

Siege of Yorktown. The engineers at work. Heavy ordnance on the way from Fortress Monroe. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A,...