Friday, March 12, 2010

Sat [March] 14 [1863]

ice made 1/4 in. last night -- rose early removed to
a point about half mile east of Suffolk & encamped
For first time since Dec 1 -- Got up & into my wall tent,
but ^'did' not use it -- Found P. W. quite sick on ground in Commissary
tent & had him moved to mine wh. is drier -- Slept as usual
in Mess tent -- Met Peter Smith Henry's Grandmas coachman --
Sergt. in Coct. Regin [?]-- looks well -- Charlie Dodge is here &
now a brigadier I hear -- milder -- wrote home

Brigadier General Charles Cleveland Dodge (1841-1910)

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