The salt meat and
horrid low country water have an injurious effect on our men, and many have
been made sick. The heat is also quite oppressive, but in the afternoon we are
much refreshed by the cool sea breeze, which in some measure repays us for the
oppressiveness of noon day. And then a bath in the clear waters of the beautiful
York! that is well worth the dull monotony of the day. Reinforced to-day by
Georgia and Louisiana troops.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 103
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