Colonel Luce is
going home again, on furlough, to recruit. He takes with him three officers of
the line and ten Sergeants—one from each company. They are to be gone sixty
days. If enlisting is "played out," as many claim, sending men from
active service for the purpose of soliciting enlistments is the height of
folly. Perhaps there is so little for us to do just now, we may as well be in
Michigan as Tennessee. If that is so, why not send all of us home?
SOURCE: David
Lane, A Soldier's Diary: The Story of a Volunteer,
1862-1865, p. 102
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