Sunday, April 22, 2012

1862 April 23

[from the diary of Samuel Johnson, 1st Massachusetts Independent Light Battery]


          April 23rd

To day the rebs have kept up a brisk cannon
-ade on our lines, doing however no materi-
-al injury.  The day has been pleasant and
cool.

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 8493

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