We arrived at New Berne without special incident, about midnight. The
regiment immediately left for the barracks; the lieutenant of the guard
forgetting the poor guard on duty, so we, after one o'clock turned in, and had
a good nap in the cabin, joining the company this forenoon, to find ourselves
in the barracks formerly occupied by the 10th Connecticut. The barracks are not
our own, and our boys are homesick; but we have found lots of boxes and have
had a glorious lunch of what remained of our good things. They had been
overhauled, and there is a sad discrepancy between the list and the contents of
the boxes.
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, pp. 51-2
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