Thursday, January 15, 2026

Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne: December 29, 1862

John Van Hoovenburg, another Company B boy, is about gone. The men are getting discouraged and to keep their minds from themselves it is said drilling is to begin to-morrow. The seed sown on the Arago is bearing fruit now. Something to do is no doubt the best medicine for us. I know I should die if I laid around and talked and thought of nothing but my own miserable self.

SOURCE:  Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 77-8

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