It has cleared up
and is quite cold. We sent off a large mail this morning. Last night we came
very near having our barracks destroyed. The funnel of one of the stoves
dropped against the roof, igniting the boards, and as we had all turned in, it
burned through the roof before it was discovered by a sentry. After burning a
hole five feet square we mastered it, and turned in again.
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, p. 41
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