Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
1862 May 14
[from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of the Letcher Artillery]
May 14th About 3 o’c this morning two
Regts & a battery of Artillery passed by
here on a scouting expedition.
While we were at breakfast orders came
to pack up all our baggage, and be ready
to start at a few minutes notice. Drilled
the company this morning in the rain
it having commenced to rain about
8 o’clock. While at dinner orders were
rec-d to unpack our baggage & repitch
our tents. the Regts came back this eve-
-ning and were within two or three
hundred yards of theYankees but not
allowed to fire. It has rained all
day long, very cold & disagreable[sic].
Wrote a letter to Jennie this afternoon.
[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 6150
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