Tuesday, July 31, 2012

July, Thursday 31, 1862

Sperryville, Va.

Morning: Bath.

Our quartermaster wagons are returning with food stuffs for the regiment about eleven o'clock.

Morning: Five o'clock Gunsalutes (sic) in honor of "Van Buren's" death of which notification arrived here.

Lieutenant Wiegand arrives and remains here. I have a terrible headache which subsides after a fifteen minute sleep.

Hoefer, Wiegand and Doerr remain here. Latter reports by the medical board for examination. "kidney trouble."

I receive a letter from Kurtz.

In the evening Hoefer and I take a bath.

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