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Corps in the intrenchments.’1 Our guns, ordered into position in front of the camp, seemed to form the pivot on which the corps moved.
The next day we were relieved by colored troops of the Twenty-fourth Corps, and moved up into a field near Dabney's Mill,2 and parked, remaining here all night.
But the rain, so frequently the accompaniment to the movements of this army, did not now forget us.
Strong working parties were busily engaged stretching corduroys along the miry places in old or new thoroughfares, as we toiled on in mud towards the front There was little for the artillery to do this day, as the corps lay in dense woods from Hatcher's Run on the right, above our old position at Armstrong's, to the vicinity of the Boydton Road where it massed on that memorable 27th of October—the
1 Report of Operations of Second Army Corps from March 29 to April 9, 1865.
Tenth Massachusetts Battery moved up in field near Dabney's Mill and parked. Col. Hazard.
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