Germantown, Tenn. The train took up the line of march back. Our
Section being in the center started at 9 A. M., passing through town up Main
Street. It was an amusing sight, nearly two-thirds of the soldiers were drunk,
having run Memphis as they pleased almost for the last twenty-four hours. We
followed the Memphis and Charleston R. R. Came into park at Germantown at dark,
having travelled fifteen miles. Partook of a soldier's supper, made our bed
neath the starry canopy of heaven, and laid down, ending the year as we began
it, by sleeping. Thus endeth the year 1862.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 23-4
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