This morning is beautiful and pleasant, much like a happy June morning in Illinois. In the evening we have brigade drill; the boys do not relish it much just now, not having had full rations long enough.
The garrison troops are now foraging on an extensive scale; parties are sent out daily, who rake the country of everything in the subsistence line. “Confiscation and extermination" is our motto. Anything to weaken this inhuman rebellion.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 129-30
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