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2 Was on the road before day light heard heavy canonading in the advance soon after starting mach a march of seven miles in a very short space of time, and came upon the enemy in free whithin three miles of Blakely Made several counter marches and flank movements to get in our proper position. Soon after dark we advanced towards their works driving in the outer pickets. A hevy fire was kept up all night doing us no damage however 3rd Early in th we retired to an adjicen hollow to cover us from the enemys fire our position being to much exposed. A heavy canonading was kept up all day by the Rebs, wounding one man in the 97 4 Rather quiet during the day until 5 P.M. when our Batteries opened a terific bombardment, on Ft. Spanish the extrem right of the Rebel works on the Mobile Bay. Heretofor they have had it their own way and done all the firing so I think they were a little surprised to find us open all at once with fifty Guns, and this is only a foretaste of what is to come 5th nothing of interest transpiring along the lines Our large Fatigue parties are gradually nearing their works by entrenching under the cover of darkness the pits are dry deep and wide enough to hide a man and the finisher by day light 6th The Regt was arroused at about 3 A.M. this morning as there was a heavy hiring on our left It proved to be a little Sortee of the enemy to drive in the skirmishers of the 3 Brigade, but they found us to much for them and had to retire considerably discomforted. At about 8 A.M. one of our batteries opened on a flag that they had on their works This caused a spirited canonading for an hour 7th. It rain nearly all day. There was about an hours heavy firing in the morning Then all was comparatively quiet two men from the Regt were wounded by their Shells Adjutat Frieson was wounded by an accidental discharge of a pistol in the hads of one of the Officers 8th Weather cloudy with a little fall of rain just before dark there was one of the heaviest bombardments at Fr. Spanish that I ever heard