Off for Hudson. The
good-byes have been said again, may be forever. We are at Pine Plains now. This
time we go by horse power instead of the cars. By "we," I mean Walter
Loucks and myself who are chums in camp, as we have long been chums at home.
Herman and John* take us up. We have a good team, a beautiful day, and have
been stopped at nearly every house long enough to say "how are you?"
and "good-bye." As soon as we stopped here, out came my diary and
pencil. The habit is getting fixed, and there is little danger of my forgetting
it. The trouble is there is so much to write about I will fill my book before I
come to the real thing. May be some one will some time be glad I wrote so much.
It is like blazing one's way through the woods. My trail can be followed, and
it behooves me to behave myself, for I claim all I write in my diary is true.
* Herman C. Rowley
and John C. Loucks.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 11-12
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