Have sent home my
diary and am beginning another. I must be more brief, for the great mass just
sent off covers but little ground and will tire the patience of any who read
it. A cold I took the night we lay in Baltimore seems determined to make me
sick. I have quite a sore throat and some days feel as if I must give up. Dr.
Cook of the 150th has seen me and thinks I should be reported to our doctor.
There is talk of our going farther south and I hope we may, for the ground is
getting pretty cold here.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 57
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