Camp Hill, Bolivar
Heights. Early this morning received orders to prepare three days' rations.
Reported we are to go up the valley, scouting. Waiting for orders. At noontime
rumors began to circulate that the regiment was ordered home to vote. The news
seemed too good to be true. Orders came to detail two men from each company to
remain as camp guard. Those who were detailed to remain felt very badly. All
were anxious to see home. At this time the anti-war party was very strong in
Connecticut, which may seem very strange. They were called copper-heads. Late
in the afternoon orders came to fall in. A gay and happy crowd, marching and
singing as we go down through Harper's Ferry, where a train was in waiting. Did
not take us long to board the train, which soon got under way, bound for
Baltimore. Singing, cheering, making merry as the train began to move, on over
the Potomac River into Maryland.
SOURCE: Charles H.
Lynch, The Civil War Diary, 1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn.
Vol's, p. 48
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