In Camp Drake; a fine, clear, warm morning; regimental drill in the morning; detailed in the evening to carry water for our company cooks, as it was mine and Thomas Jester's day by rotation.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 34
A fine clear day and very warm; drilled in the morning and was reviewed in the evening. David Johnston and Cornelius Clifford, from Indiana, paid me a visit; nothing new occurred in camp.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 34
A very wet morning. Our Lieut. Col. Miles got his leg broken below the knee, by his horse stumbling and falling; he had visited the 77th Penna. regiment, and it was on his return to our camp that he met with this accident. I carried coffee out to No. 3 station and No. 1 post in the evening, making a march there and back again of 4 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, pp. 34-5
A fine warm morning ; took coffee out to No. 3 station and No. 1 post, making a march out and back again of 4 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
A fine mornings drilled until breakfast time, and then reported to the Adjutant, fully armed and equipped, to go outside the picket line to cut cedar brush to make summer shades for our officers; regimental drill in the evening; making a march outside of our picket line of 6 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
On camp guard this morning; a very pleasant day, cold at night, and nothing of importance occurring in camp on this day.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
Came off camp guard, having been relieved; a fine warm morning ; sent our dress and overcoats to Nashville.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
A fine warm day; went on a visit to see David Johnston and Cornelius Clifford and others of the 42d Ind. regiment; all quiet in camp this day; making a march of 4 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
A nice warm day, and am on water committee for cooking and detailed to help clean streets ; orders came to be ready to march at a moment's warning; took tea out to our men on picket on the Bradysville pike, making a march there and back again of 5 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 35
A warm, nice day; took coffee out to our men on picket on the Bradysville pike to No. 2 station: our videttes were fired on by the rebels in the night, who then skedaddled; all quiet in the morning ; so I returned again to camp, going and coming making a march of 5 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, pp. 35-6
A fine warm morning; a detail out of our regiment to fence in a brigade grave-yard at Murfreesboro', or one mile south of it.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 36
A fine warm, clear day; detailed for camp guard.
SOURCE: Adam S. Johnston, The
Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 36
