Wrote and mailed
some letters this morning. Wm. Partington died in this room this morning. He
and I came here the same time and lay side by side. I was taken to the big tent
and he left here. We were both hard sick and when I came back Bill was in just
about the same condition I was. We both got round together and began to go out
at the same time. A day or two ago diarrhea hit him and now he is taken and I
left. So it goes. We plan for to-morrow and to-morrow we are wrapped in a
blanket and out we go.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 98
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