Wednesday, July 18, 2012

1862 July 19 near Warrenton, Va.

[from the diary of Ephraim A. Wood, Private, Co. C, 13th Massachusetts]


Saturday  July 19th /62
   Pleasant, Our Work to day
was loading teams, We must
have loaded nearly two hundred
of them.  The pay Master came
to day.  In the afternoon a
Squad of men came to
our relief, while we went to

Camp to get our pay.
We got back to our quarters
about dark, Received letters
from Sophia & George also some papers.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 12021



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