Wednesday, April 20.—Review of the artillery of the Second corps, by General Hancock. The corps has eight batteries now.
Friday, April 22.—Review of the Second corps, numbering nearly forty thousand men, by General Grant.
Sunday, April 24.—Mounted inspection.
Monday, April 25.—This afternoon, a private of the Nineteenth Massachusetts regiment was hung for violating a woman eighty years old.
Wednesday, April 27.—The battery broke up winter-quarters this morning, and went to camp between Stevensburg and Pony Mountain. Sergeant Greene returned from recruiting.
Friday, April 29.—The battery changed camp again, moving close to the infantry.
Saturday, April 30.—We were mustered in for two months service.
Sunday, May 1.—Mounted inspection. Burnside’s corps arrived at Warrenton Junction.
Tuesday, May 3.—The Army of the Potomac commences the great campaign against Richmond. General Grant is with the army. Our battery left camp at eight o’clock in the evening, and marched all night.
Wednesday, May 4.—Arriving at the Rapidan, we halted but a few minutes. Our cavalry was already across. About six o’clock A. M., we forded the river at Ely’s Ford. The infantry crossed on a pontoon bridge. We marched directly towards the Wilderness, and arrived at Chancellorsville at noon. One division of the Second corps formed in line of battle, facing Fredericksburg, and remained there all day and night.