Saturday, 7th–The Eleventh Iowa received marching orders today, and we are to carry forty rounds of extra ammunition, besides our cartridge box of forty rounds. There was no drill or dress parade today on account of an all-day rain.
SATURDAY 7 Another very delightful day. But it was a foggy morning, busy in the office all day. There has been heavy firing heard all day over the River. There has been no Battle and they are only practicing at the Forts. The force over the River is now said to be 200,000 men. There [...]
DECEMBER 7th.—Quite a commotion has been experienced in official circles by the departure of Mr. W. H. B. Custis, late Union member of the Virginia Convention, without obtaining a passport to leave the city. Some of his secession constituents being in the city, reported that they knew it was his purpose to return to the [...]
7th.–Eight days ago to-day, the sick list was 144. Today it is 72! I begin to think that a Surgeon may be as indispensable to an army as a Colonel,–that “A doctor skilled our deadly wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal.” Another “speck of war” yesterday. About ten thousand men [...]
December 7th.–A visit to the Garibaldi Guard with some of the Englishry, and an excellent dinner at the mess, which presented a curious scene, and was graced by sketches from a wonderful polyglot chaplain. What a company!–the officers present were composed as follows:–Five Spaniards, six Poles and Hungarians, two Frenchmen–the most soldierly-looking men at table–one [...]