Saturday, May 19, 2012

1862 May 20


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

         May 20th

At one P. M we received marching orders
and by three were on the go.  about six
halted and encamped on a plantation
in Hanover County.  This county is so
thinly inhabited that it is not divided
into town ships.  We are but twelve miles
from Richmond.  Pleasant and quite
warm. during the day: in the evening a
rain storm set in which lasted all night

MSS 8493

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