1862 April 28 before Yorktown, Va.

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


                       April 28th

Yesterday and to day the 1st N. J. F. Co.  1st
N. Y. and our battery were busy disembar-
-king their pieces and cassions.  There
has been an incessant cannonading between
our gun boats and the batteries at                
Gloucester Point.  D. Co. 2nd N. Y. re-embarked
their battery to day.  Cool and pleasant.

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 8493