This morning details were made for picket duty and working
on the railroad and the telegraph lines, doing the work laboring men ought to
have done. The enemy destroyed about everything connected with the railroad. I
was detailed, with twenty men, to report at the station to the road-master. Our
equipments were left at the station, while we loaded telegraph poles on flat
cars, distributed them along the road, and helped to set them. We were obliged
to throw the poles off from the slowly moving train. It was hard and very
dangerous work for inexperienced men who were so near used up from hard service
during the year. We were thankful when night came and we could return to our
camp to rest and sleep.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 127-8
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