Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: March 17, 1865

Reveille at 4. Moved out at 8, having been in line two hours. In rear of the train. Got into camp before dark. Plenty of rations. Passed through Aylett's Ware House and camped near King William Court House, 8 miles from White House.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 147-8

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, October 26, 1862

Cold but pleasant morning. Made a forage detail to go out with brigade teams. Several of the boys played poker. Read some in Pope. The Iliad. Gibbs strange fellow. Came into the army a professing Christian, a class leader, today he is playing poker with the boys. I occasionally hear an oath from him. Never saw a man more egotistical. Eats more than any three men. Still a harmless fellow. Good talk about going home with Co. H boys around a big fire.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 39

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Friday, July 29, 1864

It is quite sultry today. Six deaths occurred today in the three wards of our building. One of the sick men, William Gibson of the Thirty-second Ohio Cavalry, died last night. He had been very sick, but was getting better, and just before he lay down for the night, told me that he felt better than for several days; but a few hours later he was dead, dying very suddenly. He left a small family. Life is indeed very uncertain. We should be prepared to meet death any moment, for we know not when the brittle thread of life will be broken, and we have to go to meet our Lord, prepared or unprepared.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 207