Monday, January 4, 2010

Fri [January] 2 [1863]

Fine day -- Saw Gen. Stoneman review Birneys division
vis. hos -- &c. made discarge papers. Capt. [Philetus] Stevens sent poor
Cooper to "see if he must wear a stock three or four days
before he could get his discharge" -- read [?], held
prayer meetg. in mess tent, & made molasses candy.

Brigadier General George Stoneman (1822-1894), chief of cavalry under General McClellan

Brigadier General David Bell Birney (1825-1864)

William P. Cooper of Co. I, 25th New Jersey

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