Left Camp
Woodsonville, Ky., on our first march or counter-march, for two months all but
two days remaining in this camp. Getting marching orders to our whole Western
Army to right-about or counter-march to West Point, 20 miles down the Ohio
river, below Louisville, going a march of 14 miles through mud and snow six
inches deep, and encamp the night, not having our tents with us, on account of
the roads being so bad that our baggage-wagons could not reach us; so we had to
make ourselves as comfortable as possible by building square pens of rails, and
sleeping on the tops of these pens, to keep us out of the snow and from the
frosts of winter.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 10
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