On my arrival here,
I found our tents pitched on ploughed ground, in a swale. The bottoms of the
tents were very damp, and the mud in the streets over shoe-top. I at once set
to work to correct this. I had the streets all ditched on either side, the dirt
thrown into the middle, and already, instead of the mud and water streets and
tents, we have them so firm, smooth and dry that they are swept every day. I
hope by this, and by constant care in ventilating the tents, to arrest the
rapidly increasing sickness.
Having finished the
above note for the day, I have, on the point of retiring, just received an
order from Gen. King to be ready to move at a minute's notice. The enemy is
probably again threatening Washington. I must prepare.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of
Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B.
McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia about the First Day
January, 1863, p. 19
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