Our happiness continues. Ten minutes walk from camp, towards
town, is a pump where we are obliged to go for water. Good water. A great
meeting place for the people and the soldiers. News of the day is talked over.
It is known as the news pump. Newspapers are not very plenty. They come from
Baltimore and Ohio. Those who are first at the pump in the morning bring the
news and stories that can be picked up, and are soon circulated through camp.
So we look for the morning news from the pump.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 148
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