The usual cannonading; trench work and mining going on. Had a splendid rain on the 10th which was enjoyed by all. Weather cool and pleasant....

Drawn up in line of battle at 4 o'clock this morning. Heavy cannonading along our whole line of works. I presume if there had been any c...

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...

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...

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

Mustered for three months' pay. Started from Myersville at ten A.M. Marched to Hanover, and went into camp at half-past four, where we s...

This morning about six o'clock there was heavy cannonading towards the Rappahanock. It is now after nine o'clock and the firing stil...

This is a beautiful day. I am quite stiff and sore from the effects of my walk. There was a detail from the sixth division this morning, mou...

Heavy cannonading all along the whole line. The Rebs reply but feebly; they will not have much chance to rest. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  W...

Tremendous cannonading early this morning. I have never heard anything to equal it. It seems to be Grant's tactics to keep the Rebs busy...

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

Cannonading heard toward Warrenton, in the afternoon. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second...

was a pritty one indeed and thar was a very hevy canonading cept up all day sum whar between Culpeper and Windchester and we had orders to c...

we was marched around to the left of our armey and was expecting to have to fight every minnet but did not for thar was no fiting don except...

was cloudy and cool but no rain And thir was hevy canonading down on the Potomac to day SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartl...

When we had marched seven miles we heard cannonading. The enemy is trying to cross the river at Jacob's Ford, but our boys kept them bac...

Ours again to-day, but not as hard as before, but heavy enough. The cannonading is getting heavier. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar He...

This morning, at daybreak, cannonading was heard by us from General Pettigrew's line, which is on our left flank. We immediately fell in...

Fighting over the enemy's fortifications. This morning our whole line of artillery—seven miles long-opened on the doomed city and fortif...

We have orders to stay in camp, ready to move at a moment's notice. Our marching orders are still delayed, so we have enjoyed a good res...