Friday, November 13, 2009

Thurs [November] 13 [1862]

Fine warm, visited sick in Camp -- & then rode via
Georgetown to Cliffburn & Emory hospitals -- spent several hours
talking & praying with men, giving tracts, papers &c.
Cummings hopes he is a Xn. for sd, he "I am a changed boy
Doctor (he calls me doctor) & I mean to say changed."
His father was with him -- others apeared better -- except a
few -- Collins died on the 7th the fifth death we have
had in that hospital & the 6th in regt all in regt.
The [ink bot here] as I passed the Capital -- home to dinner
after distributing mail -- Held three interestg. prayer
meetgs. in tents.

Private Samuel S. Cummings, Co. F, 25th New Jersey
There were six men with the surname Collins in the 25th New Jersey

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