Waterman Composition No. 2 Page 1

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(Stationery with picture
of Phillips Academy in
upper left corner) Composition No. 2.

Here goes for a description of another of my little
trips about Virginia. About twenty days before our time would be out, I
believe it was about the 10th of May. As we were out one morning having
a company drill, a messenger came and called us back to camp, I expected
what was coming and on reaching camp my fears were confirmed. We were
ordered to fall in as soon as possible, with rations &etc &etc. I prepared as usual
and about one o'clock we started, it was an exceeding hot day and none
carried more clothing than was necessary. I carried my rubber blanket and
wore a thin blouse. We marched all of that afternoon until seven o'clock,
when we halted and as the sun had set, it began to grow extremely cold
and chilly, so we built fires and made coffee &etc. and then most of us
laid down to sleep. I laid down on the bare ground with my blanket over
me and slept like a log for about three hours then the order was forward
march, and away we went till after sunrise the next day when we
had travelled about twenty miles. We had all of that day to rest and that
night we went forward a mile and camped for the night. It rained almost
all night and I had all I could do to keep my gun dry. It seems as though
it was only yesterday. I remember an old barn near by where we were
and how many of our men went up in the loft to keep dry. Some who
were not quite so fortunate as others went into the barn at midnight
and began to holler fire. Those upstairs were terribly frightened, some
jumped out of the window, and others ran down stairs, but any how
the barn was cleared very quickly. The next forenoon we were sent forward
to the extreme front , there were six regiments of us (our force was about
twenty regiments in all), we had not more than got into position before
the enemy came to the edge of some woods which were nearby, and

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