1862 May 15 Between Yorktown and Richmond, Va.

[from the diary of Jonathan Hager of the 14th U.S. Regulars, as copied at a later date]

May 15-16  This morning we got orders to march.  We
struck our tents, got our baggage all in readiness
and the wagons all loaded & we were lounging
around awaiting the assembly to sound when
the order was countermanded.  By this time
it had commenced to rain.  We fell to
heartily, unloaded baggage, pitched our tents
& made ourselves comfortable again in about
twenty minutes.  We staid in this camp all of
the 16th raining incessantly.

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