Thursday, May 24, 2012

May, Saturday 24, 1862

Franklin.

No coffee. Noon fresh meat with flour.

Afternoon: Officer Pirty arrives from New York. I buy a sash from him for Doctor Idler. He will return tomorrow. He tells of the horrible conditions the roads are in for a length of about ten miles from here and also the difficulty the provision wagons have to get through.

Evening: Orders for marching readiness tomorrow morning early at four-forty-five o'clock.

Forty-fifth R. avant guard.

Clehsin and De Leyer remain in Romney.

One ration coffee and sugar, one third ration crackers, (one cracker per man) one - one-half-lbs. meat.

Munition up to forty cartridges.

I am writing to my wife and to Hoefer in Romney.

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