John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion

Our labors during the forenoon of this eventful day were trying in the extreme. We were marched and countermarched up hill and down dale, through the rain and mire, taking position at the ‘Stevens House’ twice, but at rest only a brief time in any place. At last our wanderings ceased, and our guns were ordered into the ravine just in rear of the point of heaviest fighting, where we lay all the afternoon, exposed to stray shots. In this place, one of the Fourth Detachment drivers—Edwin F. Damrell—was hit by a spent ball, which made a slight abrasion of the skin over the heart.

Columns of men, with fixed and somewhat jaded look, marched sternly up past us to the very front of the tempest. They were mainly from the Fifth Corps, which was now the right of the army, but from which two divisions were taken to support the Second and Sixth corps while they held the captured salient Continuous lines of ambulances bore back the hundreds who were wounded in this day's battle.

Night at last set in, with the rain falling in increasing quantities, and most of us being without blankets, turned in upon the wet tarpaulins, lying on one half, and doubling the other half over us, and, being well exhausted with the fatigues of the past twenty-four hours, slept soundly; but the firing continued even after Lee's withdrawal at midnight, and the whistling of a bullet fell now and then on the ear of the wakeful.

Morning of the 13th broke bright and clear, with comparative quiet in front. The Rebels having fallen back to an interior line of fortifications, our