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| + | Toward the middle of the afternoon, however, it ceased, and we managed to get a little sleep and eat supper. | ||
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head quarters and had our tents pitched, meanwhile the shelling going on very briskly. [line] Toward the middle of the afternoon, however, it ceased, and we managed to get a little sleep and eat supper.
After Supper orders came for the division to be ready [inserted] to move at a moment's notice, and to have everything destroyed which could not be carried. The ammunition trains were to push ahead first by the way of Savage Station.
It was midnight before the troops began their march, and then the whole division was forced to halt till morning below McClellan's head quarters.
No sleep yet -- no sleep yet.