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Showing posts with label Camp Millington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camp Millington. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, February 11, 1863

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JUST at night, as I had finished the above, the Laurel Hill, the boat  that  brought us from quarantine to Chalmette, tied up in front of ca...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Thursday, October 16, 1862

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5 a. m. The cars shrink, or the men swell, for certainly everybody had less room last night than before. Cross and crabbed, sore in every ...

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Tuesday, October 28, 1862

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CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. From the time of our home-coming and the royal welcome given us by the 150th, I have only made notes which I wil...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: Monday, October 6, 1862

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Back in Camp Millington, and the rest of the day is ours. A letter from Miss Hull, in answer to one written her mother. It was full of home ...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 20, 1862

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In spite of the fact that we are sumptuously fed, I have long longed for a good square meal off a clean table. This morning, early, I sneake...

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, Friday, September 26, 1862

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Camp Millington again. A sort of trial called a court-martial has been held and the boys who celebrated yesterday, are meditating upon it in...

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 29, 1862

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CAMP MILLINGTON, BALTIMORE. On account of the heat we were not taken out for drill to-day. We have cleaned up our quarters, for since gettin...