[from the diary of Samuel Johnson of the 1st Massachusetts Independent Light Battery]

                           May 21st

Reveille was blown at five A. M
harnessed and packed up, and by seven
were again in motion.  At three P. M.
after a long and very fatiguing march, we
halted and encamped at Cold Harbor,
some seven miles from Richmond and
two from the Chicahominy.  We are expecting
a battle in a very few days.  Pleasant
and very warm.

[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 8493