May 7 — The infantry armies have been quiet nearly all day, but the cavalry was fighting and skirmishing from early morn until dewy eve. Early this morning the Yankee sharpshooters charged to within a hundred yards of my gun and fired a volley at us, but did no harm. I fired a shell at them, which broke their line and retired them in disorder. We fell back then about half a mile, out of the brush and woods, to a better and open position; we remained in battery there all day, but the enemy did not show fight nor advance after we drove their sharpshooters back this morning.
Late this evening there was some heavy musketry on the right of General Longstreet’s line, just to the left of our battery. Our orders to leave bivouac and hasten to the front this morning at daylight were urgent and pressing, and we had no time to prepare or eat any breakfast, which greatly ruffled some of our drivers. When we neared the enemy’s line we awaited orders, and one of our drivers was still going through with the baby act about something to eat and having no breakfast. Just then General Stuart and staff came along rather on the reconnoissance order, and halted a moment in the road right where we were, and heard the gallant grumbling and childish murmuring of our hungry man, and the General rode up to him and through pure magnanimity gave our driver two biscuits out of his own haversack.
This evening at dusk we left our position and moved a little distance to the rear, and bivouacked.
