Sunday, June 30, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Friday, October 3, 1862

Battalion-drill again to-day. That and talking about the new orderly is all I have to record to-day. The whole thing has blown over, evidently. If the cause had been just, I suppose there would have been some way to bring us to terms, but as it now appears, I think the company officers are ashamed of their part, and Kniffin, if he ever gets to be orderly sergeant, will have to come up by the regular route.

SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 44

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