Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty, January 12, 1862

The officers dress better, as a rule, than in West Virginia. The only man who has not, in this regard, changed for the better, is the Major. He continues the careless fellow he was. Occasionally he makes an effort to have his boots polished; but finds the day altogether too short for the work, and abandons the job in despair.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 96