We are looking for
the Dutchess County regiment as if their coming was an assured fact, yet it is
only a rumor, and even that cannot be traced very far. Aside from our daily
drill, which is not much fun, we manage to get some amusement out of everything
that comes along. We visit each other and play all sorts of games. Fiddling and
dancing take the lead just now. The company streets, now that the ground has
been smoothed off, make a good ballroom. A partner has just been swung clear
off the floor into a tent, onto a man who was writing a letter, and from the
sound is going to end up in a fight. "Taps" are sounded at 9 P. M.,
which is a signal for lights out and quiet in the camp.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 39
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