The last day of an
eventful year to us, but the matters worthy of note are few and far between.
We drilled hard from
two o'clock till we had barely time to clean up for dress parade, and very
little can be said of brigade drills in their favor. The principal thing being,
we passed the "defile" many times, and formed en echelon, about all
the afternoon. It may be it was to celebrate the new "star,”—our Gen.
Stevenson wearing his for the first time to-day. If that was it we will forgive
him, but if the star is going to increase the brigade drills we shall wish he
never had won it.
Our brigade now is
the 2d in the 1st Division, Acting Major-General Wessels, and is composed of
the 5th R. I., 10th Conn., 24th Mass., 44th Mass., and Belger's R. I. Battery.
SOURCE: John Jasper
Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass.
Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, p. 31
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