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70 Evacuation of Fredricksburg 1864

May 28th This town was evacuated in the forenoon. The sick and wounded was taken onboard of transports, and the able bodied men marched to Port Royal, having a hard days march and ariving at dark. No signs of the enemy as we expected.

29th A fair day. Each corpsmen were formed into a squad by themselves. Seargt Storer and a few others wer detaled to go to the wharf and unload transports. Albert Roberts and I was detaled with many others to guard teams acrost the country to the army.

30th A fair day. We started with the train at five o'clock A.M. A hard march. We camped at Newtown and I went on picket with 23 men which I had command of on the march. Three negroes came into our line in the night to asertain if they would be alowed to run away with us, and returned for thair folks but did not get in in time to leav with us in the morning