We have just
received orders to be ready to march at a minute's notice, with two days'
rations in our haversacks. The quiet of repose is suddenly disturbed by war's
alarms; the Rebels attacked our forces today at Suffolk, about twenty miles
from Norfolk. The supposition is we go to support our forces at that place. Our
men are excited to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. As I write I hear their
shouts and joyful exclamations. The Seventeenth has recovered its old-time
energy, and is eager for the fray.
SOURCE: David Lane,
A Soldier's Diary: The Story of a Volunteer, 1862-1865, p. 35
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