1862 May 30 Camp Alexander, Va.

 [from the war journal (i.e. extracts of letters) of Captain George Hazen Dana of the 32nd Massachusetts Volunteers]


 Camp Alexander
                                                 Friday, May 30th 1862.
My dear Parents,
                         We have just got our tents up,
and I am completely tired out, but must write you a
few lines before I take a sleep.     We had a very
tedious passage, continual stoppages taking place, on
account of our train being an extra one -----
Am writing this “on top of a drum, for want of better
accommodation, the officers’ tents not having arrived
on the ground yet.     So soon as we get settled,
I shall write more fully.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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