Reported for duty
with the company this morning, but have to report to the doctor every day until
I get my discharge from there. Have been appointed commissary sergeant. See to
drawing the rations for Company B, and shall look out that they get their share.
This relieves me from guard duty and from everything that interferes with my
duties as commissary. It relieves me from duty in the ranks, adds another
stripe to my arm, and two dollars per month to my pay. I am glad to have
something to do. At night a citizen tried to go through camp and when halted by
the guards started to run and was shot. What he was, or why he acted as he did
I don't know, and he can't tell.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, pp. 98-9
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