Sunday, August 14, 2011

1861 August 14

[from the diary of Wesley Hammond]
Skirmish drill and dress
parade. Read 2 Chapters
in the Bible and from the
77th to the 100 page of Mil-
ton’s Paradise Lost.
Wrote to Jacob Peters, Esqr.
Day, pretty fair – our pickets brou-
ght a Union man into camp and
shot at another.


MSS 5526

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