Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, November 18, 1862

Marching orders at last. We are off for the front. Everybody busy packing up and sending home such things as are not absolutely needed. It seems hard to decide but I bring myself down to what a small valise will hold. "Now comes the tug of war."

SOURCE: Joseph Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton, p. 4