Reports are that a
great battle has been fought at Antietam, and a great victory won. Do they tell
us this to keep up our courage, or has the beginning of the end really come?
To-morrow we have the promise of going on picket duty. Good! anything for a
change. It will give me something to write about in my diary, if nothing more.
Things are getting rather monotonous, and any change will be good for us,
provided it is not for the worse. Prayer meeting every night now. Chaplain
Parker seems in dead earnest. He wants us all to be ready to die. Then, he
says, if death don't come, we will be in better shape to live. Very few of the
officers attend prayer meeting, though they encourage the men to do so.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 31
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