The project was
started to build huts for winter-quarters. Details were made every day, to cut
heavy timber, which was done for a week. But luckily, it failed completely, as
it would have taken at least four months to get ready, by the plan worked on.
Officers quarters had to be built first, then non-commissioned officers, and
last, the poor privates. In fact, a great nuisance in the army, is the illegal
using of soldiers for manual service for the benefit of comissioned officers,
which is altogether contrary to army regulations. It is revolting to the mind,
to see men, who perhaps never have been anything at home, make slaves of their
equals, just because they happen to be in command of them, and this, they give
the wrong name of discipline.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 29
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