Our regular routine has been kept up for the past few days.
Guard duty, drill, dress parade, Sunday morning inspection. When at liberty
continue to take long walks out into the surrounding country. Call on the
farmers. They laugh about the Yankee soldiers making friends with the cows. We
tell them that's because we like milk. We found out the cows would eat
hardtack. We fed and petted them while they were out to pasture. Women do the
milking in this section. I heard a woman say that she was a good milker but the
Yankees could beat her and milk into a canteen at that.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 152-3
No comments:
Post a Comment