John Van has been
over again and says his regiment is going into winter quarters in the city
outskirts. I hear the 128th has sailed for Fortress Monroe. The papers are all
headed, "Removal of McClellan," and everyone is giving his opinion of
the change. I say nothing because I know too little about it to venture an
opinion. I went out and treated myself to a good square meal to-day and begin
to think I was more hungry than sick, for I feel fit and ready for anything.
Chaplain Parker has been here to see his boys, as he calls them. Says he left
the regiment off Fortress Monroe on board the Arago. He reports them well and
in fine spirits.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 59
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