The Family Together Again. March 26. Broke camp and went over to Portsmouth, opposite Norfolk. Regiment arrived in the afternoon, bringing some 250 recruits. We are once more together and the regiment now numbers about 900 men. Towards night we were ordered out to Getty’s Station, about four miles west of Portsmouth.

Saturday, 26th–The friends of the boys in our company gave a dinner for us today at Mr. Ray’s, and father took me over. It was a cold, cloudy day and the roads were muddy, but all the friends came out and gave the boys a warm greeting—and a fine dinner we had. We all enjoyed [...]

March, Saturday 26, 1864 Today everything in commotion, as it is a general cleaning up day. Laura did not give me possession of my room until 12 o’clock—have not set a stitch in sewing today. Mr. Pugh and I spent the morning playing Drafts—I beat him badly. After dinner he very kindly offered to fix [...]

MARCH 26th.—Bright morning, but a cold, cloudy, windy day. A great crowd of people have been at the Treasury building all day, funding Treasury notes. It is to be hoped that as money gets scarcer, food and raiment will get cheaper. Mr. Benton, the dentist, escaped being conscribed last year by the ingenuity of his [...]

March 26th, 1864.—I am so ashamed of myself. In all the excitement we have experienced and, yes, all this ill-timed gaiety, I forgot I had not finished the allotment of socks, which was to have been ready for the box, which is to be forwarded to the Army of the West. I have only three [...]