Our quarters are excellent. We have three houses on Broad Street, not far
from the river; two of them are two stories, and the other a cottage. The
company is divided; a part in each house, having its own sergeant; and each
room has its own mess. We have only one set of cooks; so we come together three
times in the day for our rations. We don't like the arrangements on some
accounts, but we are in the best quarters we have had since leaving Boston, so
we ought not to grumble.
To-day we have been doing escort duty. Dr. Ware's body is to be sent
North to his home, by the steamer "Terry." He died during the siege
at Little Washington. He was a good man, and one of whom it may be truly said
he "died at his post." Tucker goes home on the same vessel. Bowman is
appointed corporal in Charlie's place.
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
