June 21. Regiment occupied the rifle pits last night. The 2d Vermont Battery kept up a kind of intermittent firing. Regiment relieved at night and returned to the rear, bivouacking in the woods.
June 22. Election held in Co. B for vacant offices. Lieut. Merrill was elected Captain, receiving 16 votes to 15 for Lieut. Rollins; 1st Sergt. James S. Walsh was elected Second Lieutenant.
June 23. There has been considerable discussion of the vexing question of termination of service. There are very few officers left with the regiment, and the duty is very hard in consequence.
June 24. Lieut. Maginnis (who was wounded in the assault of the 27th of May) died of his wounds today.
June 26. Orders received to take the regiment to the rear and bivouac near Brigade Headquarters, and just at night ordered to relieve the 2d Louisiana in the advance rifle pits.
June 27. Col. Stone on the sick list. After being relieved from the rifle pits ordered to go to the left and support the 49th Massachusetts and 21st Maine, which we did, bivouacking at 11 o’clock P. M.
June 29. Heavy cannonading all night. An attempt was made a little to our left and front to capture an outpost of ours, but it failed; the rebs were repulsed, and it is said with a loss of 90 prisoners; cannot vouch for the truth of the rumor. Regiment ordered into the rifle pits to support Holcomb’s 2d Vermont Battery.
June 30. Were in the rifle pits near Holcomb’s Battery all night. There were sounds of a smart skirmish down on the extreme left, which continued about an hour. Col. Stone left today for Baton Rouge, sick.
July 1. Regiment bivouacking near Brigade Headquarters. Rebs made a raid into Springfield Landing, stampeding the guards and destroying a considerable amount of government stores.
July 2. Regiment has laid in the woods near Brigade Headquarters this forenoon. Near noon orders came to fall in to repel an attack from the rebs in the rear who had raided Springfield Landing and after destroying the government stores there were now on the march for Port Hudson. The “march to Port Hudson” proved to be a hoax, and the regiment was soon dismissed and at night went into the front rifle pits.