Mrs. Hemmenway gave some of the boys permission to have a
dance at her home last night. Quite a number of the boys went and they declare
that they had a good time. The girls of the locality were there and most of
them either smoked or chewed tobacco. They would dance a while, then rest and
smoke, but those that chewed did not care to stop.1
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1Craven Lane, a member of
Company E, died of lung fever on this day at Jefferson City. He had been with
us but a short time and was a very quiet boy. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 28
