1862 December 13 New Bern, N.C.

[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F., 25th Massacusetts]
Saturday
Dec 13
Started about half past nine this morn-
ing.  We had pretty good night though
pretty cold.  At half past three we stopped in a
grove a little this side of Kinston.  This morning
I read the seventeenth and eighteenth Psalms and was
much comforted by them.  O how good is my Savior
who has kept me thus far.  We are going to camp
here to-night. We hear that Banks has taken Wilming
ton, but I dont know as it is true.  col.Mix with
the ninth New Jersey took two pieces of artillery
from the rebels this afternoon.  It has been pretty
warm this afternoon

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