I was so completely
exhausted yesterday I did not expect to be able to march at all today, but,
thanks to my recuperative powers, I arose this morning "good as new."
The distance is nothing; it is the load we carry, and the rough, hilly country,
winding up, higher and higher, that fatigues. Rough and hilly as it is, this
country is thickly settled by a people who raise barely enough to keep soul and
body together. We have marched only nine miles today, and will lay over until
the day after tomorrow.
SOURCE: David Lane, A Soldier's Diary: The Story of
a Volunteer, 1862-1865, p. 93
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