Friday, August 12, 2011

1861 August 12

[from the diary of Wesley Hammond of the Dixie Greys, Co. E. of the 42nd Virginia]

Monday
Skirmish drill _ Company
and Battallion drills – Read
2 Chapters in bible and from
the 3rd to 25th page in Mil-
ton’s Paradise Lost. Plenty to
eat to day, (that is of meat and
corn bread) The day’s work
will close in a few minutes by
calling the roll and prayer.
While writing these lines I am
seated in my tent door – Casting my
eyes occasionally to the Starry
Heavens above me as I often
did in other days – the days of
childhood – which caused my
thoughts often to wander up to
the Great Creator of all things,
and often caused me to exclaim
in the language of the Psalmist –
“When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy fingers, the moon
and the stars which thou hast
ordained; what is man that
thou art mindful of him, ^ ‘and’ or
the Son of man that thou vis
-itest him”? Also am think
ing of Home and absent
Friends – as I frequently do
when alone.

MSS 5526

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