Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.

March 6, 2012

Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.

March 6 — We moved from our quarters south of the Berryville road to a woods north of the road. All is quiet, but from various indications, and from our short movements from pike to pike, first to the Berryville pike and then to the Martinsburg road, forebodes that all is not well.

A private in the rear rank has very little opportunity of knowing or learning anything concerning the movements or strength of an approaching enemy, but I have a sort of unexplainable intuition that the Yanks are advancing on Winchester with a heavy force, and that within the next few days we will see either a fight or a fall-back.

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