Rained all day, came
within four miles of Charlotte. A very poor country. I and Reuben Slaughter
went out and staid all night with Mrs. Hood. Her husband had been conscripted.
She boiled a ham, baked some pies, filled our haversacks and started us on our
way rejoicing. Came down to Mr. Ventress.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 6
The Ninth and Fourth Ohio, Fifteenth Indiana, and one company of cavalry, started up the mountain between seven and eight o'clock. The Colonel being unwell, I followed with the Third. Awful rumors were afloat of fortifications and rebels at the top; but we found no fortifications, and as for the rebels, they were scampering for Staunton as fast as their legs could carry them.
This mountain scenery is magnificent. As we climbed the Cheat the views were the grandest I ever looked upon. Nests of hills, appearing like eggs of the mountain; ravines so dark that one could not guess their depth; openings, the ends of which seemed lost in a blue mist; broken-backed mountains, long mountains, round mountains, mountains sloping gently to the summit; others so steep a squirrel could hardly climb them; fatherly mountains, with their children clustered about them, clothed in birch, pine, and cedar; mountain streams, sparkling now in the sunlight, then dashing down into apparently fathomless abysses.
It was a beautiful day, and the march was delightful. The road is crooked beyond description, but very solid and smooth.
The farmer on whose premises we are encamped has returned from the woods. He has discovered that we are not so bad as we were reported. Most of the negroes have been left at home. Many were in camp to-day with corn-bread, pies, and cakes to sell. Fox, my servant, went out this afternoon and bought a basket of bread. He brought in two chickens also, which he said were presented to him. I suspect Fox does not always tell the truth.
SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 28-9
I wrote Sister
Letitia, 3c. pie, 10c.
SOURCE: Lewis C.
Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 4
We steamed past Fort
Schuyler, Hurl Gate, New York city, crossed the bay, and landed at Elizabethport,
by ten o'clock A. M. After a delay of several hours at the railroad depot, the
train started off. Much sympathy was displayed by the people of New Brunswick,
Trenton, Easton and other places we passed through. Loud cheering hailed us at
every station; strawberries, pies, &c., were freely handed in the cars.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First
Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, p. 7
Arrived at
Harrisburg early in the morning. Coffee, bread and pies were given to us by
inhabitants of that place. After a short halt, we resumed our journey, crossed
the Susquehanna river, passed Little York, and arrived at Baltimore by eight
o'clock in the evening. Our battery was immediately loaded on flats, drawn by
horses to the top of the hill, the horses unhitched then, and the cars rolled
down the other side to the Washington depot. Order was given not to accept any
refreshments from the citizens. No demonstration was made, the throwing of a few
bricks on the cars, in the neighborhood of the depot, excepted. Started for
Washington by ten o'clock.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First
Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, p. 7
