| Page 35on guard I had full satisfaction of
both storm & rain, and at night with
my companions, being fatigued & wet
to the skin, I lay down at the foot of
a tree, with my blanket wraped around
me, and I do not exagerate when I
say. I found myself at day light next
morning, lying as comfortable and
as contented in a pond of water, as
I would have been in a feather bed.
I only mention this to show that a sol-
-diers life is not entirely devoid of pleasures.
About 8 am 30th May, we were ordered on
the march again, and the firing of can
-nins round about. The hurried consul
-tations of General officers, prognasti
-cated a little excitement in the shape
of a [?] with old Abe & his boys,
it [rushing?] against the Yanks in | Page 35on guard I had full satisfaction of
both storm & rain, and at night with
my companions, being fatigued & wet
to the skin, I lay down at the foot of
a tree, with my blanket wraped around
me, and I do not exagerate when I
say. I found myself at day light next
morning, lying as comfortable and
as contented in a pond of water, as
I would have been in a feather bed.
I only mention this to show that a sol-
-diers life is not entirely devoid of pleasures.
About 8 am 30th May, we were ordered on
the march again, and the firing of can
-nins round about. The hurried consul
-tations of General officers, prognasti
-cated a little excitement in the shape
of a [?] with old Abe & his boys,
it [rushing?] against the Yanks in |
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