Turned out early this morning. Orders to prepare for
inspection and drill. Officers seem bound to keep us busy. This afternoon while
enjoying a bath and a swim in Cedar Creek, felt something around my leg under
water. It did not take me long to pull the thing off, which proved to be a
water snake. With a jump I was soon out of the water. My leg bled freely from a
small wound. First thought that I had been bitten. No bad results coming from
it, decided that the wound was made by a sharp stone. Comrade Charlie Geer of
our company was with me.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 58
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