Thursday, 9th.—Moved a quarter of a mile to good water. Drew two months’ wages to-day, $22.00. Remaining here until the 13th, had some time for letter-writing. Some letter paper and envelopes had been captured in the fight; I got hold of some of it; the envelopes were pretty small, but on the left-hand corner was printed “The Girl I Left Behind Me;” so I proceeded to write to one I had left behind me and I wrote so much that when I got it into that small envelope it looked about as full as a “stuffed toad;” I got a very nice answer to that letter, but it wasn’t very long until the girl married an old bachelor. A lady told me after the war was over, that she read that letter. No doubt she enjoyed reading it for it was a “goodun.”
(Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)