camp Near Seneca, November 20, 1861.
I have just come in from a walk through the camp at night.
The cooks are busy over to-morrow's dinner. Picking and dressing turkeys, and
preparing the large, glowing ovens for roasting. The irregularity is
overlooked, in view of the occasion. The preparations are so vast that the
dinner will be cooking nearly all night. I shall be able to give you the
statistics to-morrow. To-night I only know that it looks as if an army were to
be fed with turkey, and another one with plum-pudding. The scene is a busy and
gay one. I have also been to see my sick charges. Incongruous scenes for such
close association! but we happen to have both pictures at once in camp. Still,
I think we grow better, and have only thankfulness and hope for to-morrow.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 152-3
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