The finest morning
yet. The air is just right. The birds are singing, the sun shining bright and
everything seems just right for getting well. A man named Barker died last
night about midnight. He has seemed to be dying for a week and we have watched
to see him breathe his last any minute. Orderly Holmes is better and may get
well after all. Some of the boys killed an alligator to-day and cooked and ate
his tail. They say it is just as good as fish and looked like fish.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, pp . 91-2
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