Encamped at
Germantown, Tennessee, last night. Weather is grand and as I marched along at
the head of my company I could not but think of the last New Year when visiting
my friends and paying the compliments of the season, how different it was from
today, yet I truly confess that I feel happier here in doing whatever duty
assigned us, going wherever orders send us. As yet we have not had a real
battle. I know the men long for the first big fight but I am contented to take
it as it comes—it will come and from all appearances soon, and I fear those who
most hanker after it will not relish it so much.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 7
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