Another day gone without incident. Holden, who has been in
charge of the hospital here, a private in Twenty-third Va., has gone home on a
furlough. I must remember him, he has been very friendly. Waters is now in
charge. Beat Pat two games chess to-day. I am out of reading. Have taken the
Bible. I find it interesting, “Joshua.” Herman Viertel, my Dutchman, washed my
pants and handkerchiefs to-day. I have sat in deshabille meantime. Kanna, a man
of West Virginia, a prisoner, has been entertaining me with some accounts of
his adventuring. If I had paper I would write down things that I hear and see
from day to day. It would make a very interesting book. I must try to remember
them all. I fear I shan't do justice to some of them.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 130
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