Major Wilder Dwight: August 5, 1861 – 5 a.m.

MonDAY MORNING, August 5, 5 A. M.

I am just going to battalion drill. All is well, and the sun is not yet over the mountain, though we see its glow on the clouds. Good by.

SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 68