Buntyn Station. Cloudy and
appearance of rain. The health in general is not very well, several troubled
with ague, etc., supposed to be owing to the water which is very bad, being
taken out of an artificial pond. Stood guard. Rained very heavy in the night.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 27
Buntyn Station. This morning,
while it was yet dark, Sergeant Hamilton came to our door, calling upon Evans
to harness and hitch up team. I being on guard, coupled the horses, stood until
8 o'clock, when they were unhitched and unharnessed. Marched from 2 o'clock.
Roll call. After [marched] to the headquarters of the 48th Indiana to be paid
off, the boys having two months' pay. I received none. Raining heavy all day.
Five months in the service of Uncle Sam.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 27
Buntyn Station. The rain of the
day before has turned into snow during the night, and I awoke to find the
ground all white, my head imbedded in a snow drift. Looked out to see the 4th
Platoon boys crawling out from under the snow, their tent having given way
under the weight and rolled aside. It was a little the hardest sight seen during
my campaign, but there was no murmur, all were jovial and contented. We had to
take the horses, who were trembling at the rack, out to exercise to the race
course, against a blinding storm of snow from the west. In the afternoon it
stopped snowing, leaving about a foot deep on the ground. Many of the boys gone
to Memphis.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 27
Buntyn Station. Clear though cold
morning. S. Beaver, S. E. Sweet, E. W. Evans, T. J. Hungerford and myself,
having a permit from Captain, started for Memphis at 8 in the morning, going
afoot on the railroad. Travelled briskly until within two miles of town, when
we were halted by a guard, with orders not to pass any officer or private of
Quinby's Division without a pass signed by officer commanding, but suggested
that we had been in the service long enough to know how to pass a guard. Taking
the hint we turned back about fifteen rods, then going through the snow around
a field, passed in to town undisturbed. Stayed in town some four hours, went to
the gallery, had my likeness taken. Spent money. Returned by the evening roll
call better off than most of the boys, as we were able to walk straight as we
had taken no liquor. Considerable tired nevertheless.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Was spent in
resting from the tramp to town. Sunny but raw, did not take much of the snow
off. Rebuilt our chimney.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Most of the snow
made its disappearance to-day. Cloudy in the afternoon. Health very good.
Anxious for mail. Rec'd none since the 13th.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Rainy and
disagreeable. Logan's Division passed on the R. R. going towards Memphis. Rec'd
three letters, four newspapers.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Still rainy and
muddy. Orderly Jenawein gone to town. Sergeant Hauxhurst acting. Health good.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. One day without
any rain, which dried up underfoot somewhat. Health excellent. On guard. No
news from below.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Sunny and warm. All quiet in camp. Exercised
the horses on the course. Weighed 140 pounds. Read Parson Brownlow's book in
the evening.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 28
Buntyn Station. Spent the day in
darning stockings. Listened to Brownlow read in tent. But when night came there
was a scene at once ludicrous and deplorable. Music was started in the 4th
Platoon tent; Parker with his fiddle, Bill Bailey with the banjo, Day's
tambourine, Byness with the bones, and Goodman's clarinet. But Quartermaster
had brought some bottled whiskey into camp and it broke up in a drunken row.
Deplorable, deplorable sight. Rec'd a letter from Thomas and a Milwaukee Sentinel of
the 18th, mailed on the 20th inst.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 29
Buntyn Station. Rainy and dark all day. Health good. Battery in general dull from the effects of last night's carousal.
|
Price of army clothing, Oct. 1862 |
|
|
Hats, naked |
$1.68 |
|
Cord and tassel |
.15 |
|
Eagle |
.14 |
|
Cross Cannons |
.03 |
|
Jacket |
5.55 |
|
Trousers |
4.60 |
|
Woolen shirts |
1.46 |
|
Woolen drawers |
.95 |
|
Stockings |
.32 |
|
Sewed boots |
3.25 |
|
Pegged boots |
2.87 |
|
Overcoat |
11.59 |
|
Woolen blanket |
3.60 |
|
Lined sack coats |
3.14 |
|
Canteen |
.44 |
|
Knapsack |
2.14 |
|
Haversack, glazed |
.56 |
|
Rubber pouch |
2.90 |
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 29
