Received $25.00
to-day, which is half the State bounty. Friends of the soldiers are coming and
going all the time. One day is much like another, and yet there is an endless
variety. We have guard mount in the morning and then drill for a couple of
hours. Then we are free to visit with our friends. We have lots of them
nowadays. No one seems to lack for them. It reminds me of how well people are
apt to speak of the dead. While alive we say all sorts of mean things to them
and about them, but when they are gone it all seems forgotten and we only
remember their good qualities. Some way the very kind attention we receive
reminds me of that.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 12
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