Browsing named entities in Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903. You can also browse the collection for May 3rd, 1864 AD or search for May 3rd, 1864 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Military Record of Captain Martin Binney (search)
o Company B, Captain Charles H. Smith, of Worcester. For some extra service while out on picket line seven miles to the front, I was highly complimented by General Thomas A. Smythe of the Second Brigade, First Division, (General F. C. Barlow) Second Corps (Major-General W. S. Hancock), and I was ordered to go back to camp and report to General Smythe in person, which I did, and received an appointment upon the brigade staff. This was only ten or fifteen days after reaching the army. On May 3, 1864, we started to cross the Rappahannock river, and then commenced the campaign of that year. We were constantly engaged in and about the Wilderness May 3, 4, 5, and 6. On May 4, I was struck in the head by a bullet which tore the scalp, and rendered me unconscious. I was taken to the rear to the field hospital, where the surgeon shaved my head and took six stitches in the wound. After dark I could not feel contented and sneaked out of the hospital tent, walked three miles, and reported