Warm and rainy. Our guard is the same, however, rain or no rain. Most of
our party are on the first district, distributed from the Gaston House door,
round the wharves to the Provost Office. The posts are all easy enough, excepting
those at the upper end of the town, near the camps. They are occasionally
disturbed by runaways from the cavalry and artillery, who come down in the
night without passes, and having no feeling for us, try to
insist on passing where they have a mind; consequently a few get picked up, and
stay down town all night.
Lieut. Cumston returned to duty to-day, having been away about four
months, on detail with Brigade Ambulance Corps at Charleston; and, of course, missing
the nice cottage our officers had at Washington.
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. 52
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