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Excerpt from History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, Vol. 4: Beverly Ford
We now moved camp Major Mudge commanding to a pine grove; where we constructed quite a picturesque military village, and became absorbed in the habits and peculiarities of the wood tick.
The days rolled on into June and it seemed fully time to be doing something more about beating Lee, whose lieutenants were successfully screening their preparations for the coming Northern invasion. General Halleck, general-in-chief at Washington, was still busily engaged telegraphing to the generals in the field; and, no doubt, Hooker was hampered by these voluminous instructions, often so at variance with his own plans, which were apt to be excellent, and he was unable at times to suppress his own domi nant and rather insubordinate spirit.
On the sth of June, Stuart was discovered concentrating his troopers in great force at Culpepp'er. Mr. Stuart's Critter-back Company was supposed to number about twelve thousand sabres, and information obtained by General Buford showed that the Rebels were preparing for a cavalry raid on a scale never before' attempted.
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