During the night we
expected an attack every hour. Pickets fired two or three times. Companies were
called out into line for a fight early in the morning — at four. Mounted at eight
and went six or eight miles and fed oats and corn. Traveled through a fine
valley, hills on both sides. Reached Neosho at dusk. Went for corn to a widow's
a mile from town. Slept on the porch at a hotel. Ate there. Good joke on Lt.
Nettleton. The next morning when he presented the lady a five dollar bill, she
quietly doubled it up and gave no change. Hear cannonading east.
SOURCE: Frances
Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 14
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