On picket again
to-day. We are at a new place, on the road to Frederick, but not as far out as Catonsville.
It is plain to see it is only for practice, for we are only a little way from
camp, and the other posts are far beyond us. Cavalry pickets are said to be
farther out still. May be it is to give us a rest, for that it certainly does.
We are out of the dust, our duties are light and the day after picket is also a
day of rest. We also get fresh vegetables, which are a treat for us now-a-days.
Night. We have had a
day of rest. Two hours on post and the next four at liberty to loaf in the
shade, is not hard work. We are in a lonely place, no houses near us, but we
have had what we needed, a real rest-up.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 44-5
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