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January, 1862.
January, 1
Albert, the cook, was swindled in the purchase of a fowl for our New Year's dinner; he supposed he was getting a young and tender turkey, but we find it to be an ancient Shanghai rooster, with flesh as tough as whitleather.
This discovery has cast a shade of melancholy over the Major.
The boys, out of pure devilment, set fire to the leaves, and to-night the forest was illuminated.
The flames advanced so rapidly that, at one time, we feared they might get beyond control, but the fire was finally whipped out, not, however, without making as much noise in the operation as would be likely to occur at the burning of an entire city.
January, 5
General Mitchell has issued an immense number of orders, and of course holds the commandants of regiments responsible for their execution.
I have, as in duty bound, done my best to enforce them, and the men think me unnecessarily severe.
To-day a soldier about half drunk was arrested for leaving camp w