Saturday, 30th–We cleaned up our camp for inspection. Troops are still landing here for the purpose of going out on the raid.
Saturday, 30th–We cleaned up our camp for inspection. Troops are still landing here for the purpose of going out on the raid.
30th. Barracks fitted up as comfortable as possible. “I” and “C” officers together. Wrote a line home and to Fannie. Paroled. Moved.
JANUARY 30th.—The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five in the military service for the war. Those over forty-five to be detailed by the President as commissary quartermasters, Nitre Bureau agents, provost guards, clerks, etc. This would make up the enormous number of 1,500,000 men! [...]