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.
Friday, April 29, 2011
1862 April 29
To day the cannonading at the Point continues quite heavy and rapid. also a brisk fire from Yorktown is added to it. News of the capture of New Orleans and the forts on the lower Mississippi reached us to day. Pleasant and quite warm.
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