Monday, December 17, 2012

1862 December 17 near Nashville

[from the diary of Captain William F. Hunter, Co. B., 97th Ohio]


     Dec. 17th, ’62.
Clear with a cold
wind.
Brigade drill
at 1 P.M.
My knee not
so much swollen
but still painful.
Ordered to be ready
to march at ¼ before
7 A.M. to-morrow
morning, with three
days rations in havre-
sacks.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 10547-bm

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