Our duty continues to be the same from day to day. When off
regular duty, work in the woods cutting up wood for camp. Everyone must take a
turn at the axe. George A. Weaver, of our company, received a bad cut in the
leg from an axe slipping from the hands of one of the boys. Weaver was carried
to the hospital, where a number of stitches were taken in the wound. General
Sheridan has posted notices along the Harper's Ferry Railroad that if the road,
or trains going to and from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, are in any manner
molested, he will burn every house and barn within a circle of five miles. I
read the notice on trees along the line of the road.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary,
1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 136
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