Thursday, January 5, 2012

1862 January 5

[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F, 25th Massachusetts]

This forenoon to the Episcopal church
Gen. Burnside was there with his wife.
After the services were through I came down
to the wharf and saw Commissary Watkins
and went on the steamer Susquehanna to carry
the 9th New Jersey to the ship. I then came back
and saw Waters on the wharf, waited there
awhile and finally the boat came up and
I went aboard. They tell us now that we are
to embark tomorrow. It is snowing this eve
ning and is quite cold. This evening
I have been reading. I thought when they
were singing of the dear friends who were
at home worshipping and of Mary. May the Lord
bless them all and watch over them and me
and all others who are in the same situation
Bless O Lord and keep us from sin and danger.
Restore us to our friends if it be Thy will
or prepare us for the fate which is in store for us.

MSS 11293

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