Thurs [November] 6 [1862]

Raw cold day windy - wrote letters to friends of sick & dead.
Lt. Col [Enoch J.] Ayres sick with Typhoid fever -- We are fixing
up a house within our lines for hospital.
It is near 4 P.M. -- the muffled drums announce the daily funeral
fr. the hospital -- ^'6 buried tonight' -- To night I am to present a sword sent
fr Patterson to Col [Andrew J.] Derrom -- He was not present at dress
parade -- At Eveg. Mr Reid (now of Xn [Christian] commission) & Lt. Col. ___ of
2d. Pa. Cav. called -- pleasant talk of an hour or two. they both
wanted me as Chapl. to that Regt - the one I was invited to
last winter -- We are ordered to reduce baggage & be
ready for instant movement -- Hereafter the entire Regt.
goes on picket for two days alternately with other Regt.
of Brigade.

Joseph P. Brinton was Lt. Col. of the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry