[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding of the 25th Massachusetts]
Feb 12 This forenoon our company and
Co. E escorted the rebel officers down
to the boat to be sent north. they say there
are 130 commissioned officers, prisoners.
Seventeen men came into camp to day
claiming protection from our General, saying
they were about to be drafted for the rebel
army and that there were twenty five more
coming. It has been a nice warm and
pleasant day, but I am not as well
contented here as almost any where else
I have been, I have a bad cold and my feet
are sore, and I feel used up generally
we marched down to the beach and got
out knapsacks.
MSS 11293
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