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were not shot at; and went as far as a log barn, where we stopped carefully on the off side, and talked to the picket officer.
When we left, we cantered gracefully and came off all right.
Then to General Wright at E. Anderson's house; a nice safe place, and the family still there; likewise iced water, very pleasant this hot weather.
After which, once more for a few minutes to Griffin, passing on the road one of his aides, on a stretcher, exceeding pale, for he had just been hit in the artery of the arm and lost a deal of blood before it could be stopped.
Also there came a cheery soldier, shot through the leg, who said: “Never mind, I hit five or six of them first.”
Finally we rode the whole length of Warren's and Crittenden's lines, seeing Weld on the way. . . .
May 27, 1864
Last night Russell's trusty division of the 6th Corps set out on a very long march, as our advanced guard in a flank movement to the Chickahominy. . . . This necessitated our early “getting out of that,” for we were on the bank of the river, and the Rebel skirmishers would be sure to follow right down with the first daylight to the opposite side.
Indeed, a little while after we were gone they did come down and fired into the telegraph waggon, wounding the side of the same.
By four we had taken our breakfast and were in the saddle.
Wonderful how promptly all the servants pack the things and strike the tents when they expect to be shot at!
We rode first to Burnside, into whom the General pitched for cutting the march of General Warren and not sending up the brigades to hold the fords; and B. rather proved that he was right and Warren wrong.
I can tell you aqua-fortis is mild to the Major-General commanding when he gets put out; which is quite not at all unfrequently; but I have seen him in no such fits as in the falling back from 