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.