Rain, and nothing
but rain; only the cleanest companies relieved, and we caught it again, and
some of us are checked as extra guard. And now for the first time our regiment is
broken. Two companies, and "B," going yesterday on picket at
Batchelder's Creek, a few miles out of New Berne, towards Kinston. We have been
idle now quite a while, and think it most time to be moved. Some say we are
going as provost guard down town, but all we can do is to wait and take what
comes. Frank Learned has been appointed corporal in place of Ramsey, who joined
the band.
SOURCE: John Jasper
Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass.
Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, pp. 40-1
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