Went out this morning
for small hog, but couldn't find aged colored individual, so had to go back to
camp porkless and in bad humor. Have spent the day in doing nothing at all, and
am without energy to think on any subject except that of going home. We are in
a most shameful condition here, hundreds of miles from our homes and friends
[and fat hogs]. We never see a newspaper or letter, unless some of our
Tennessee friends happen to hear of our hiding place, and bring us out these
desirable articles. We are badly fed, and have no source of amusement except
what is afforded by our camp-jokes and soldier-yarns. We can buy nothing of use
or ornament, and, to crown all our miseries, we are in a quarantine which may
end in the spring.
SOURCE: Edwin L.
Drake, Editor, The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and Early Western History,
Vol. 1, p. 21
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