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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 4
Chapter 4:
December 26, 1862, to June 24, 1863.
On the march
Poolsville
camp life
discontent
drill
incidents
Benson's Hill
alarms
retrospect.
Friday morning, Dec. 26, about 10.30 o'clock, we turned our backs on Camp Barry with little reluctance, and moving up Maryland Avenue past the Capitol into Pennsylvania Avenue, thence on through Georgetown, we entered the main road leading to the upper Potomac.
The weather had been mild for several days, and the roads being dry alest possible limit, then stowed in our knapsacks, now not quite as distended as when we left Massachusetts.
These were then strapped upon the pieces and caissons, and having at last received marching orders, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon of June 24, 1863, we bade adieu, most of us forever, to our old camp and the village of Poolsville.
As we turn in retrospect upon our sojourn here, removed from the occurrence by a lapse of so many years, there are thoughts which present themselves perhaps