"Our squad" on picket again across the river. As we were on the
bridge this morning we saw the "Escort" steaming down the river,
bound for New Berne, having Gen. Foster on board. We have had a pleasant day,
but the water in the river is very high, consequently our camp and the road are
flooded. When the dinner of boiled rice came, it took an extra amount of
persuasion from the lieutenant of the guard, to make the man bring it to us,
but he finally concluded to, and then had to carry it to the outpost.
SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While
Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June
1863, p. 49
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