[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F, 25th Massachusetts]
Sunday
Sept 7
Last night about eight o'clock, we were ordered
to fall in, and march out about five miles
from here, where we lay in ambush for the rebels
who were expected down to attack our two companies
who are on picket duty but we saw nothing and so came back
to camp this morning. I then went to church and
heard chaplain James preach a firstrate sermon
His text was in Judges 18th chapter and twenty first verse
and he went on to show that a mans influence was
according to his character: I finished my letter and
gave it to Ed Brown to take home to the folks as he
is going home to-morrow morning. I bid him good bye
to night with a sorrowful heart. Companies E & D
went out on picket with the other two companies.
MSS 11293
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