period than in summer.
Men with strong wills can do or suffer any thing.
We erected comfortable cabins in two days, and having timber all around us, kept up roaring fires of logs.
During the summer and fall, however, our hospital-lists were heavy with chills, fevers, rheumatism, and the like, but now we are thoroughly acclimated, and the hills, snows, cold winds, and mud of Virginia are as bearable and pleasant to the boys as their own sunny South, near the waters of the Gulf.
Hera is Dr. Wilson, smoking at his ease.
What have you to say regarding this matter, Doctor?
No long, barbarous, four-footed professional terms, if you please!
The fine old doctor appealed to remarked, that:
In plain English, the commissary department has not done its duty.
When our youth were called to the field, they were unaccustomed to hardships or privations — being for the most part well-educated, comfortably circumstanced, and never subjected to any labor at home harder than a week's hunting
hat the court snaps its fingers at time, as if it were of no consequence, and seven men, against whom there are no charges, are likely to spend their natural lives in investigating seven men, more or less, against whom there are charges.
It is thus the rebels are being subjugated, the Union re-united, the Constitution and the laws enforced.
August, 3
Among the curiosities in camp are two young coons and a pet opossum.
The latter is the property of Augustus Caesar, the esquire of Adjutant Wilson.
Caesar restrains the opossum with a string, and looks forward with great pleasure to the time when he will be fat enough to eat. The coons are just now playing on the wild cherry tree in front of my tent, and several colored boys are watching them with great interest.
One of these, a native Alabamian, tells me de coon am a great fiter; he can wip a dog berry often; but de possum can wip de coon, for he jist takes one holt on de coon, goes to sleep, an‘ nebber lets go; de coon he scr
