1862 August 17 near Cedar Mountain

[from the diary of Ephraim A.Wood,  Co. C., 13th Massachusetts]


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     Company C, 4th Battalion Rifles, Boston
                   HEAD- QUARTERS,
 Camp           13Tth REGIMENT
                     ALWAYS READY
           MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS     1862.

Sunday    Aug 17th 1862
Went down to Robinson
river about a half a mile distance
and had a swim.  Gen Carroll was
out near the pickets this
morning and was shot in
the Shoulder by a Rebel picket.
Towards night we struck tents
and marched back three
miles toward Culpepper, going on
the opposite side of the Mountain
to which we came.  We camped
near the foot of Cedar Mountain
and about two miles from the
Battle ground.

  [transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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