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52 At [?] Run

Nov 29th Our brigade started to the front before daylight to relieve a brigade of the second corps from picket. It was very muddy, and we did not get our posts until after sunrise. There was heavy picket firing while we was taking our posts. One man in Co E was wounded in the arm. Some picket firing all day. The rebel brestworks are all in sight about 3/4 of a mile from ours. The sesesh [secessionist] flags are flying all in sight.

30th Our batterys opened in the morning but did not get much reply from the rebs. Some shelling from both sides in the afternoon. But fear killed as wounded. The rebel army is intrenched on the opposite side of mine run from the union army and appear to be so strong that it seems to be useless to sacrifice men to drive them from their marks, so Gen'l Mead gives orders to prepare to fall back to the Rappahannock river.