1862 September 4 3 miles from Fort Cregg

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

Thursday  Sept 4th/62

     This morning I went to a
field and got some potatoes which
I fried for Breakfast.  I found
about three hundred digging in the
field.  During the forenoon I went
down to the brook washing, and
I saw one of the 35 Massachusetts
Boys  He said his Regt was down
near fort C[?] about three miles
distance.  He said that there was
twenty Needham boys in his Company.
I asked him if they was any one by
the name of Stevens or Morse.  He
thought there was, but was not
sure.  Towards night we were relieved
from picket.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 12021