Lovely day, wrote letter of thanks to Gen. Burnside
visited Med. director of R[igh]t G[rand]Div[ision] -- to see about
sending Posts body home, visited hospl. -- wrote several letters --
We are now brigaded as 3rd Brig -- Col Dutton of
21 Conn Comdg -- also 13 NH & 4th R.I. --
Dr. [James] Reiley was appointed Brigade Surgeon but
order revoked as Surgeon of 13 N H ranks him
Read - "Among the Pines" -- It is thot we shall
move Soon -- rumors of great battle in West --
& of attack of Vicksburg -- also -- pres. proclamation
declares all rebel states free -- on 1st. [?] good.
May the Lord cause it to Secure Liberty & Union
to us all -- & peace & joy & to his name shall be
the prayer --
Co. Arthur H. Dutton, 21st Connecticut
"Among the pines: or south in secession-time" was a non-fiction travel account by Edmund Kirke, a pseudonym for James R. Gilmore. It was one of the books known to have been read by Abraham Lincoln. Gilmore later published his personal reminiscences of the president.
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