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
