Friday, October 2, 2009

Sunday Oct 2nd [1864]

Rained at intervals all night
After dark it got to be a little

at this point at the top of the next page he writes man shot last night

warmer. We slept very well
At 7 A.M. turned out the Camp
policed &c. Morning cloudy & cool
appearances of rain. All in Camp
at 8 1/2 A.M. Sick call at 9 A.M.
At 10 A.M. the Drum sounded the
Breakfast. We drew 20 loaves of Corn
and 5 of soft Bread and one Buck-^'et'
of Meat. It did not rain. The Sun
came out in the Afternoon and
made it very pleasant and dried
up the mud. At 5 P.M. we drew
our Rations Corn Bread (28) and
fresh Beef (1) the largest ration
we have ever drawn yet. A new
Q. Master was put in to day
At sun down we drew our
Bean soup. With the fresh beef
we draw 1 quart of salt. every
day. since we commenced drawing

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