Saturday, December 3, 2011

1861 December 3

[from the diary of Francis G. Hale of the 34th Ohio Zouaves]

to day is very cold
it turned cold in the
night and the roads
are frozen up and
very ruff we had
batalion drill this
after noon and like
to froze our fingers
of the curst and swore
for having to go on
drill sutch cold days
then we had dress
parade in the evening
they Adjutant read
rules for this winter
they are pretty hard on the
condition we are in
for we can not get
even a blacking brush here now

MSS 13405

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