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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 10
Chapter 10:
May 3-20, 1864.
Our anticipations
order of march
Grant's plan
almost a stampede
General Hancock
Chancellorsville
Todd's Tavern the Wilderness and its terrific battle
by the left flank
battle of the Po
Spottsylvania
the ghastly salient
moving about
the Tenth a four-gun Battery
news from home.
It was with something of a thrill that, in the afternoon of May 3d, we heard orders for drill countermanded by those foreshadowing a march at dark.
We did not shrink from the prospect as did some of the older soldiers, who had been scarred and battered in the months gone by. There was that about it which made all unwilling to be left behind.
We wanted to have a part in the great campaign soon to begin.
We wished to banish every trace of band-box from the Battery and make a record as famous as that of Ricketts' company from Pennsylvania.
We had seen just fighting enough to believe our organization composed of men who lacked only the opportunity to show t
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 20