Wednesday, July 4, 2012

July, Friday 4, 1862

By Middletown.

Towards noon mustering by the United States mustering officer. Like it always is the case on such occasions a lot of drinking is being done in the regiment.

I ask Doctor Idler if I could not use my old remedy for diarrhea, the one I used in Ohio for my weekly attacks of diarrhea: A light dose of rhubarb, 02? 09? Half as much as one takes for a purgative. He gives me some.

Lieutenant Dietz is going to New York as Recruiting Officer. He will stop off first in Washington in order to take care of the things of the regiment deposited there and also officer's baggage. He assumes the responsibility for my baggage.

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