Tuesday [May] 31 [1864]

clear and very warm
about the same I get
some milk to day
herd that Gen Lee
was killed but don't
know whether it
is true or not

Monday, May 30, 1864

Cloudy in the morn
cleared away about
nine do not feel quite
so well to day feel
better since I got
some milk to drink

Sunday [May] 29 [1864]

very plesent this
morn feel pretty well
p[l]enty to eat to day
bought it of A
citizen had to pay prety
dear for it

Saturday [May] 28 [1864]

Very plesent this
morn got to hard
crackers for breakfast
No news today.

Friday, May 27, 1864

Clear and very
plesent about the
same this morn
went to the brook
and washed got pan
cake for supper

Thursday [May] 26 [1864

Cloudy and warm
feel about the same
this morn gruel for
dinner cleared away
about noon another
shower to night

Wednesday [May] 25 [1864]

Clear and very
warm this morn
about the same
cannonading this
morn thunder shower
about dark [-]
in perfect [-]

Tuesday, May 24, 1864

Very plesent this
morn went to creek
and washed myself
this morn feel prety
well to day get about
2/3 as much as want
to eat thunder shower

Monday [May] 23 [1864]

cloudy and quite
cool this morn no
news about the same
did not rest very
well last night

Sunday [May] 22 [1864]

warm and very
plesent do not
feel quite so well
this morn got two
cakes and cup
full of rice soup
they sent all that could walk
to Orange

Saturday, May 21, 1864

Very plesent this
morn got on[e] cake for
Breakfast I feel quite
well this morn
thunder showers
at night

Friday [May] 20 [1864]

very plesant this morn
about the same not
any pains got half
pint of rice watter for
Breakfast quite easy
to night drew
Rations to night

Tuesday [May] 19 [1864]

about the same this
morn quite cool but
the sun shines some [?]
Dan [or I am?] this morn rest[?]
quite comfortably
very quiet to night
had my tent moved to day

Wednesday, May 18, 1864

quite easy this morn
cloudy and cold
Heavy cannonading
this morn coffee for
Breakfast showers in
the afternoon very
comfortable to night

Perhaps the guns at Harrison House in the continuing battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

Tuesday [May] 17 [1864]

A little better to day
Len died last night
about seven Oclock

The remaining three lines are faded almost to illegibility with only a few words visible:
possibly
[he was very aware
and passed away
-----------------]

Monday [May] 16 [1864]

not much better to day

Sunday, May 15, 1864

A good deal better
to day crawled out
of the tent this morn
but cannot walk
can just stand up
nothing to eat to
day but hard bread

Saturday [May] 14 [1864]

A little better to
day rainy and
cold got some
meal gruel and
beef tea

Friday [May] 13 [1864]

Ah I am so tired
of lying here on the
ground what shall
I do so weak that
I cannot get out
of the tent Len had
his leg amputated today

Thursday, May 12, 1864

very bad this morn
got wet last night
Len is growing
worse had some
flour gruel could
not eat much

Wednesday [May] 11 [1864]

no letters bled again
last night cloudy
and cold drank A
little beef tea this
morn am very weak

Tuesday [May] 10 [1864]

rainy to day bled
again to day I am
so weak that I
cannot walk all that
I can eat is beef tea
and flour gruel

Monday, May 9, 1864

no better yet
got some gruel
to day
very warm
Bled very bad
to day

Sunday [May] 8 [1864]

nothing that I can
eat yet my mouth
is very bad
saw Lieut Lane to
day we are expecting
to go to Richmond

Lieut Frederic W. Lane of Co. B

Saturday [May] 7 [1864]

here I am yet
nothing to eat
and my wound
not dressed either
Pinkham & Elliot died
last night.

Friday, May 6, 1864

here I am A
Prisnor and
wounded in the
face Len [?] Green
is here with me
his leg broke

Possibly Sgt. Orlando Green of Co. B.

Thursday [May] 5 [1864]

threw up breast
works this morn
and remained
till noon when
we was ordered
to advance
B Co was badly cut up
I was wounded

Writing in diary switches from ink to pencil at this point.

The Battle of the Wilderness began on May 5. The 20th Maine was flanked and the refuse-the-line movement they had executed so successfully on Little Round Top the previous year failed. Most of the men were able to cut their way back to Union lines. Hichborn and a few other wounded could not.

Wednesday [May] 4 [1864]

Very warm started this
morn at 1 Oclock and
marched till 3 PM
we marched about 18
miles and went into
camp for the night
all quiet to night

Tuesday, May 3, 1864

Was relieved this
morn very plesant
the bugle blew at
1 Oclock to pack up
we marched about
5 miles and went into
camp for the night

Monday [May] 2 [1864]

In camp to day I
went on guard this
morn all quiet
we have six days
raitions on hand
received A letter
from Sarah to night

Sunday, May 1 [1864]

Cloudy to day we wer[e]
awake this morn at five
by the drums and had
orders to be ready to
move at nine the 57
relieved and we went to
Brandy Station and
^'camped' for the night'

Saturday, April 30, 1864

Cloudy to day but very
warm we was mustered
the IVRS Corps crossed
the river to day for the
front the 67 Mass
came up to night
and are in camp
& just across the Railroad

Friday [April] 29 [1864]

Very warm to day
Co drill 10 AM Co drill
2 1/2 PM
Parade at 5
all quiet the 44th
came back to day

Thursday [April] 28 [1864]

Another lovely day
Knapsack drill
10 AM nothing new
to day the report is that Gen Burnsides
Head Quarters is at
Manassas parade at 4 1/2

Wednesday, April 27, 1864

Very pleasant this morn
Knapsack drill this
AM 9 1/2 Oclock Battalion
2 PM was drilled by Maj
Ellis Spear Parade at
the usual time all quiet
to night no Letters