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Cumberland Rainy today. Kept
my horse saddled all day, and
performed duty alone, Wead being
sick. Our camp is pitched in a plowed
field, a most wretched spot.
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Moved this morning at
four o’clock. Took charge of the
head quarter’s baggage. Roads
very heavy. Met Harlan Cobb
with his engineer comrades pushing
on Capt. Duane’s train. Did a
great deal of work before night and
got sick thereby. Slept in a negroe [sic]
hut with a dozen others and suffered
horribly before morning. I have found
something else that may be put among
the “horrors of war.” Horrible visu [?]
