{"id":1342,"date":"2012-05-01T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:52:20","slug":"may-31-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/05\/01\/may-31-1865\/","title":{"rendered":"May 31, 1865"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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May<\/span> 31.
\non<\/span> board Steamship
\n“<\/span>Illinois\u201d off Cape
\nHenry<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

I am to resume my diary
\nagain under circumstances the
\nmost peculiar of my life.
\nThe<\/span> links must be
\nfew + slight that connect
\nthis account with that brief
\none two pages back.
\nAfter<\/span> that assignment
\nto Thomas\u2019 Brigade came quietly
\nthe great work of the war in
\nwhich the corps I was serving
\nwith player some part.
\nOn the morning of the 3rd.
\nof April we entered the<\/p>\n

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Capitol of Rebelldom amid
\nthe explosion of a hundred
\nmagazines and a frightful
\nconflagration.
\nThen<\/span> we occupied
\nManchester where I had
\nthe honor of raising the
\nStars + Stripes over that
\nwretched little town for
\nthe first time since the
\nrebellion began\u2014a little
\nthing truly, but nevertheless one
\ncreating a great hubbub, it
\nwould seem; since hardly
\na letter from my friends
\nfail of mentioning it.
\nsave L. w \u2013 i \u2013 s –<\/p>\n

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In Manchester we were stationed
\ntwo weeks. Then we marched
\nto Petersburgh changing camp
\ntwice.
\nOn<\/span> the 29th April
\nI was ordered to report to
\nBut, Brig. Gen. Jackson Comdg
\n2nd. Div for duty + at once
\nreported.
\nA<\/span> few days after we
\nwere ordered to vicinity of
\nCity Point + one week
\nago we set out on this
\nTexas Expedition.
\nThis<\/span> morning I sent
\nby mail letters to all my
\nfriends\u2014excepting L. for
\nwhom all along I was
\nintending to prepare a
\nlengthy letter; but by some
\nunaccountable manner<\/p>\n

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omitted it at last.
\nI<\/span> am sorry; but
\nshe shall read this journal
\nfor a letter instead\u2014and
\nthat is the way I will
\npunish myself.
\nBut<\/span> wont that be
\na punishment for her?<\/p>\n

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We<\/span> left our anchorage
\nin Hampton Road about 10 oclock
\nthis forenoon, passing Fort
\nMunroe on the right and
\nthe Rip Raps on the left, the
\nband of the 8th N.J. CT on
\nthe hurricane deck playing<\/p>\n

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\u201cColumbia\u2019s the gem of the
\nOcean – \u201d
\nSoon<\/span> after I challenged
\nGen. Doubleday to a game
\nof chess + after a severe
\ncontest of an hour I
\n\u201cresigned.\u201d
\nThen<\/span> we had dinner
\nand afterward I \u201cturned in\u201d
\nwith \u201cTony Butler\u201d whom I find
\nto be a fine manly fellow
\nand the book oin the whole
\nquite readable.
\nHawkes<\/span> gives me a copy
\nof Longfellow\u2019s Psalm of Life which
\nwe sing in the Even\u2019g to the
\nline of \u201cCocha chi lunk\u201d [?] +c.<\/p>\n

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The lost Pleiad has taken
\noff his gold lace. And yet
\nhe is a good fellow.<\/p>\n

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The boat swings but a very
\nlittle indeed now + then is
\nlittle chance to be sea
\nsick; the Capt however
\nassures me that there
\nwill be a good opportunity
\nyet before we reach Mobile
\nBay.
\nI<\/span> am not anxious.
\nI<\/span> bear in mind
\nthe finely described experience
\non ship board of Henry
\nWard Beecher and I
\nam looking for the same.
\nMay I never find it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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