Tuesday, June 21st.
No orders came relieving us, but at 3 A. M. we reported again to Col. Tidball, and at 5 o’clock the regiment was sent to the left of the line of investment and crossed the Norfolk and Petersburg R. R. After marching about six miles, and it being reported that the rebels were advancing on some point to our right, we were counter-marched some four miles and drawn up in line behind some earthworks with the artillery. When the excitement was over, we rolled up in our blankets and shelter tents and got what sleep we could. My mattress consisted of two parallel rails about six inches apart, with one end supported on the second rail of an old fence, alongside of a brass twelve-pounder and without even a stone for a pillow. It was rumored that the infantry of the Second Corps had gone out somewhere on a skirmish. I heard to-day that Privates Lyke and Smith, wounded on the 18th, died in hospital of their wounds.
