Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Monday, March 2, 1863

A fine morning. Writing paper 25, washing 20 (Jones). I showed the colonel my burlesque of my company and the fort generally. He laughed quite heartily.

SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 13