Friday, January 23, 2026

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty, October 16, 1861

Am told that some of the boys lost in gambling every farthing of their money half an hour after receiving it from the paymaster.

An Indiana soldier threw a bombshell into the fire to-day, and three men were seriously wounded by the explosion.
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The writer was absent from camp from October 21st to latter part of November, serving on courtmartial, first at Huttonville, and afterward at Beverly.

In November the Third was transferred to Kentucky.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, pp. 82-3

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