Crossed the river on a pontoon bridge. Dam above progressing
finely. Commissaries would not issue rations to parties unless they were
accompanied with a commissioned officer and while the dam was building we took
turns in drawing rations and that was about all the duties we had to do except
to go on guard once a week; the cavalry scouts doing all the fighting. I called
it a pretty soft snap. Bailey would have nobody but Michiganders on the dam.
SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith, Leaves from
a Soldier's Diary, p. 108-9
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