Eventful day. Last night about 9 o’clock, we were ordered to take up line of march immediately and report to General Beauregard’s1headquarters, 14 miles away. We started and trudged along, awful tired and sleepy, reaching the neighborhood of headquarters about 2 o’clock in the morning. Just as we got there ours and the Yankee pickets were actively engaged firing very heavily about quarter of a mile distance. We knew that stirring times were coming. We lay down in the woods and slept ‘till day soundly. At daybreak we marched out to take our position. We proceeded immediately in rear to support another line.
1 P.G.T. Beauregard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard
