Heigho! I'm a corporal!—whatever
that may be. The appointments were made to-day, and I just caught on to the
bottom round of the ladder. As I did not expect anything I suppose I should
feel pleased. May be I do. I am not sure how I feel now-a-days. There is such a
hubbub, I wonder we don't all go crazy. Some say we leave Hudson to-night. None
of us know when or where we go, but there is a lot of guessing.
Night. Laura Loucks was in
camp to-day. She is on her way home from her sister's, in the western part of
the state. She greeted me with "There's another fool!" A great many
good-byes were said to-day, and tears enough shed to drown a cat.
SOURCE: Lawrence Van
Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p.
14
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