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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