Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone, January 27, 1862

was a warm sunshiney day and we all went out on drill to day for the first time in too months And the Colonel praysed ous all and said that he was glad that we had not forgoten how to drill

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 13