Reached as far as we can go today, our progress being stopped by a large rebel fortification called Fort Pemberton, which is about two miles off. We disembarked and were assigned camping ground by General Sanborn, our brigade commander. It is on a clearing—our tents are pitched among decayed pine trees, which have been girdled for the purpose of clearing the ground.
SOURCE: Joseph Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton, p. 10
This is Thanksgiving
Day as ordered by the President of the United States. Spent the day in the
woods on picket duty. My dinner was hard tack and ham; day exceedingly
pleasant. Thought of friends at home but do not regret being where I am. We are
brigaded with the 4th Minnesota, 48th Indiana and 59th Indiana—Colonel Sanborn
commanding brigade, General Quimby's division, General Hamilton's corps,
General Grant's army of the West.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 4
