Union soldier in 1st Massachusetts Independent Light Battery. Diary a purchase in 1967. Posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. Transcribed by Mary Roy Edwards. Comments by Robert Krick. Additional information on Johnson appreciated.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
1862 April 16
Yesterday and to day have been very busily employed in embarking the troops. This afternoon our entire battery having embarked we hauled out into the stream and anchored. Pleasant and mild.
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