1862 May 22 Camp Bullock, near New Bern, N.C.

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

Thursday
May 22
Was troubled a good deal by
mosquitoes so that I did not sleep
much of any.  I came of picket Went in Swimming
into the creek and had a good wash
Occupied the day in reading books which
I got of the chaplain.

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