1862 July 4 Camp on Flat Top Mountain, Va.

[from the diary of James Dinsmore Templeton, private and musician in the 23rd Ohio]

Friday, July 4, 1862
        A lazy day this
    morning at daybreak
        we went out &
played the National
air. Helped Mr Brames
to get a pass
Guard mounting
Wrote Letter to Tom Weeks
After noon John Benton
Campbell Herb & I got
two cans strawberries
& one of Pine Apple 2 Cakes
Gillett on a drunk
No Parade Played in the
evening Co D boys
built a large Bower
under which they had
a dance a main feature
was one of the boys dressed
up as an Indian in
Leaves  quite pretty
many of the men several
of the officers drunk
    clear pleasant

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