Received marching orders, and at sunrise next morning we were on the
march for Camp Kearney. After we had marched about a mile Col Holcomb ordered
me back to look after the convalescents or those who were unable to carry their
guns and knapsacks. These were all put in army wagon and the men got in line.
There was about one hundred of them. We started about one o'clock and arrived
in Camp Kearney at dark. This place was drier ground and being near the river
was much healthier than Camp Williams but the men had imbibed so much malaria
at the latter place that there was not much improvement in the health of the
men until the middle of October.
SOURCE: George G. Smith, Leaves from a Soldier's Diary, p.
29
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