. Thirteenth regiment of New Hampshire volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865: a diary covering three years and a day . battle, and until darkon May 16th. K. Mr. Charles Friends house, 300 to 500 yards south of the works. L. Place of Thirteenths bivouac on the night of May 13th, in a littlefield south of the line of woods. M. M. Line of woods where telegraph wire was stretched along, justnorth of the sunken road Y. (Only a part of the road was sunken,the rest a mere track, now, 1885, very difficult to follow in thedense timber grown up since the battle; the ground was thenop
. Thirteenth regiment of New Hampshire volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865: a diary covering three years and a day . battle, and until darkon May 16th. K. Mr. Charles Friends house, 300 to 500 yards south of the works. L. Place of Thirteenths bivouac on the night of May 13th, in a littlefield south of the line of woods. M. M. Line of woods where telegraph wire was stretched along, justnorth of the sunken road Y. (Only a part of the road was sunken,the rest a mere track, now, 1885, very difficult to follow in thedense timber grown up since the battle; the ground was thenopen between the works and the road.) N. 10th mile-stone from Richmond. P. 9th mile-stone. R. Kingsland Creek, nearly one mile north of the trenches held by the13th, on May 16th. U. Columns of rebel infantry, six ranks deep, in woods arrows indicate the advance of the enemy to re-occupy theworks — on both sides at once — after the 10th and 13th regi-ments had retired to the woods L. The arrow V shows thecourse taken by their careless heavy column of infantry ; theother arrow of their extremely cautious DRURYS BLUFF, Mat 14-16, 1864. From a sketch made by the writer in May 1885i 1864 BATTLE OF DRURYS BLUFF. 319 raising money enough to purchase an extra nest of three iron were used exckisively for making coffee, and when the Thirteenthretired, this morning, from the works, these kettles were left full of years after the war closed, a Confederate officer was lecturing atReading, Mass., and related, as an incident, the capture here of sundrykettles full of most excellent Yankee coffee. On comparing notes it wasmade clear and ceitain that this Confederate officer, and his friends, hadenjoyed this morning the coffee made for Company G—and appro-priated their kettles. It is, no douht, very satisfactory to Co. G to knowwhat became of their coffee and kettles on this occasion. The Majoradds facetiously concerning this: Our c
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