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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