LXVIII
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,Sunday Evening, September 21, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,Sunday Evening, September 21, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,Sunday Evening, September 21, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,
Sunday Evening, September 21, 1862.
I HAVEbeen down to the Eleventh Regiment to see James [K. Lane, “the girl’s” brother] and other boys there. I went into the camp, stopped a while at one of the Manchester companies, where I found lots of fellows that I knew, and then started for Co. G to find James, when he bore down on me with all sail spread. I knew him, and he knew me, at sight, and we were just as well acquainted after we had shaken hands as though we had known each other for years.
We are doing a little digging now—just enough to keep our hand in—on rifle pits between Forts Worth and Ward. Our knapsacks, which were loaded onto barges when we left Harrison’s Landing, got here only two days ago. I had begun to think they were gone for good, and was ready to bewail the loss of all my valuables, when they turned up safe and sound.