Lay in camp. Men save ours were mustered for pay. The boys
went out and got the body of the Butternut, and buried him in the cornfield — shot
in the neck. Wrote home. Bought a jacket of T. R. S. Saw Major P.'s ring we
boys have bought for him — nice. Went to bed rather early. Commenced a letter
to Fannie. Interrupted to go out scouting. In the P. M. Capt. Welch with
Stewart and Lisering and 25 men went out seven or eight miles expecting to find
some bushwhackers seen by a 9th Wis. Found nobody. Stopped at three houses and
got horses. One girl, husband pressed into rebel army, plead so earnestly for
her pony. It was touching. Finally the captain gave it back. Reached camp at 1
A. M.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 40
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