1862 October 1 Suffield, Conn.

[from the diary of the Rev. Francis E. Butler, future chaplain of the 25th New Jersey]


Wed. Oct 1.  expected & made ready to go to Camp today
but heard Regt. would not move at present – So wrote
up money affairs.  tried horse of Capt Otis – John cold.[colored]
boy whom I engaged as servant   John Henry
Baggs – lived with Mr. Thurston – rain all day

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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