Friday, May 4, 2012

1862 May 5


 [from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of the Letcher Artillery]


May 5th orders of yesterday
countermanded, raining, afternoon stop-
ped raining, took horses out to drill, com-
-menced raining again, stayed out 2 ½ hours.
12 o’c this night orders came to move

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 6150

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