Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Monday, July 16, 2012
1862 July 16 Camp Green Meadows
[from the diary of Charles Hay of the 23rd Ohio]
Camp Green Meadows, July 22nd.
Have had a return of the Erysipelas, less
severe than the former attack, occasioned
by overheating myself too soon after getting
up from a sick bed, having walked from
Flat Top here in two-thirds of an
extremely hot day. For five days have
been considerably indisposed, but am
again on the mend.
Our present encampment is truly
a pleasant and healthy one. By
means of the heavy=leafed boughs of oak
trees every where abounding in profusion,
the men have constructed green arbors,
welcome places of resort these hot
days. One of the best springs, I have
ever seen supplies us with a plenty
of deliciously cool water, sufficiently
so without ice or a refrigerator.
We are now five miles from Pack’s
Ferry, where a detachment of the 23rd
still remains stationed. Everything quiet
in this section, we now appear to be at peace with
the world.
[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 13925
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