Thursday, December 17, 2009

Dec. 20th, '62

Fair & warm.
Brigade drill this
P.M. Quite a com-
motion caused by
heavy cannonading
in front, about 7 P.M.;
regt. ordered into
line of battle, but
soon sent to quarters.
Said to be a salute in
honor Gen'l Smith's
marriage; afterward
heard that it was
the enemy firing on
[General Horatio Phillips] Van Cleves pickets, --
& still again, that it
was one of our for-
aging expeditions
defending themselves
from an attack of reb-
el cavalry.

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