Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Diary of Private William S. White, April 22, 1861

No dread "Pawnee" coming we returned to Richmond to-day, and in a few days will go into a camp of instruction. We now consider ourselves regular soldiers of the Southern Confederacy, having received our first orders yesterday, and we date our enlistment from that period.

SOURCE: William S. White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 93

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