The days are so much
alike I have given up noting the doings of each as it comes. Since February 1st
our meeting-house tent has been repaired and raised again. Rumor of a move came
early in the week and has kept us guessing ever since. I think it means something,
for the sick in camp hospital have been sent to the general hospital in New
Orleans. The weather has been of all sorts. Cold and windy and then a thunder
and lightning storm that shook the very earth. The hospital is filling up
again, too. Twenty men from Company K were reported to-day, and five from
Company B. I fear my turn is coming, for in spite of all Dr. Andrus does, my
cough does not let up.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 86
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