All day we are drawn up in line of battle behind our works; the pickets continue skirmishing. In the afternoon the Seventh receives a mail, and while standing in battle line they read the little messages from home and friends; we conclude that these little “billets” cheer the soldiers, for ofttimes while reading them we see smiles playing upon their faces.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 72
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