862 May 15 Camp Bullock near New Bern, N.C.

[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F, 25th Massachusetts]

Thursday
May 15

This morning at two o'clock were
aroused by the order to fall in
and marched up near Trenton, about
eleven miles, together with some cavalry,
and also the 17th Mass and some aritllery
The cavalry had a skirmish with the
rebel cavalry and drove them across
the river, when we received orders to march
back.  It was a hard march as it rained
and was very muddy.


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