Sunday, September 2, 2012

1862 September 2 New Bern, N. C.

[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F, 25th Massachusetts]

Tuesday
Sept. 2
1862
Had bread and coffee for breakfast.  Dress
parade and company drill this forenoon, battalion
drill this afternoon.  Read some in Mrs Partington's
"Knitting Work" and "Matrimonial Brokerage. ["] Finished
and sent my letter home.  Got a book at the Chaplains
called "advice to a young Christian."  Had fried
crackers and beef-steak for dinner and baked
beans for super.  Have not felt very smart to day.

Mrs. Partington was not an author of knitting pattern books but a scatter-brained character created by American humorist Benjamin Pehnallow Shillabar, 1814-1890.

MSS  11293

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