May 21 — This morning we left the field of Spottsylvania Court House and marched for Milford, a station on Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad; Milford is situated near the center of Caroline County. The Yankees took possession of Milford to-day, and late this evening we encountered them two miles west of the station. They were in a pine thicket, and we fired some six or eight shell into their covert, in order to draw them out and show their hand, and also to ascertain their strength and intentions; but they took our fire in silence, behaved themselves, and remained in the thicket.
We are camped this evening about four miles southwest of Milford, on the Hanover Junction road. The country we passed through to-day is rolling and the land is apparently of a rather poor quality.
