[from the diary of Lt. John Tyler of the Letcher Artillery]

May 14th  About 3 o’c this morning two
Regts & a battery of Artillery passed by
here on a scouting expedition.
While we were at breakfast orders came
to pack up all our baggage, and be ready
to start at a few minutes notice.  Drilled
the company this morning in the rain
it having commenced to rain about
8 o’clock.  While at dinner orders were
rec-d to unpack our baggage &  repitch
our tents.  the Regts came back this eve-

-ning and were within two or three
hundred yards of theYankees but not
allowed to fire.  It has rained all
day long, very cold & disagreable[sic].
Wrote a letter to Jennie this afternoon.

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 6150