Monday, August 20, 2012

1862 August 21 Camp on Rappahannock River

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



Thursday  Aug 21
     Every thing quiet at this place today
heavy firing has been going on at
the right of us, probably at Warrenton
Springs,  We could can see the Rebel
pickets quite plainly from hear
We have commenced to throw up
entrenchments a short distance from
hear.  We all have to work about
ten hours a day.  Sixty rounds
of cartridges were given out to us
making in all one hundred
rounds,  We have to keep our
Canteens fill, and are ready at
any moment to fall into line
of Battle.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 12521

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