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            <dateline><date when="1862-05-30">Friday 30</date>.</dateline>
            <p>The <name type="weather">day was very warm</name>. <persName type="regiment">We</persName> took down our <objectName type="equipment">tents</objectName> &amp; packed, “waiting for the
<objectName type="equipment"> wagon</objectName>” when about 9 o’clock the <persName type="Military">wagon master</persName> came, and told <persName type="regiment">us</persName> he had <objectName type="readable">orders</objectName>
               from <persName type="Military">Quarter master Hall </persName>not to haul any more over the road until it was
               repaired, and that he would furnish transportation to the <placeName type="river">river</placeName>, and on the
               other side of the <placeName>river</placeName>. If my <objectName type="equipment">tents</objectName> hadn’t been down I wouldn’t have budged -
<persName type="regiment"> we</persName> asked "what then - is there a <objectName type="vehicle">boat</objectName>”, well <persName type="Hall">his</persName> instructions didn’t go any
               further. Some peoples was mad, and an indefinite amount of hard swearing done.
<persName type="regiment"> We</persName> expected this from <persName type="Military">Hall</persName>, but yet <persName type="regiment">we</persName> couldn’t restrain our indignation. Our
<persName type="Union"> Quartermaster</persName> starts off with the<persName type="Union"> wagon-master</persName> to see about a <objectName type="vehicle">boat</objectName>. Directly
               the teams came, &amp; <persName type="regiment">we</persName> of course thought there was a <objectName type="vehicle">boat</objectName> - loaded up -
<persName role="Military" type="Beaver"> Beaver</persName> went with the teams - <persName type="JML">I</persName> started with the company by the road. It must be
               5 miles - we crossed the <placeName type="Trent">Trent by the Bridge</placeName>, part of which <persName type="regiment">we</persName> knocked down
               when <persName type="regiment">we</persName> went through the draw with the <orgName role="Military " type="Vidette">Vidette</orgName>, and up the left <placeName type="Bank">Bank of the Trent</placeName>. Within a mile or perhaps less, a <objectName type="nature">deep creek</objectName> 
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               like <placeName type="Timothy">Timothy</placeName>, then makes a bend like a <objectName type="nature">horseshoe</objectName> &amp; comes back again –
               across the <objectName type="nature">neck</objectName> it is but a few hundred yards, but the <placeName role="Union" type="Peninsula">peninsula</placeName> contains
               several hundred <objectName type="nature">acres</objectName> – on the <placeName>peninsula</placeName> is our <placeName role="Union" type="Camp">camp</placeName>: <objectName type="nature">covered with grass &amp; shaded with pines</objectName> - the <placeName>banks</placeName> covered with <objectName type="nature">luxuriant foliage of pines and trees &amp; flowers</objectName> </p>
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            <p>The <objectName type="nature">stately cypress</objectName>, made venerable by the <orgName type="spanish">gray-beards of Spanish moss</orgName> – The
<placeName> creek</placeName> is very deep. Oh it is a lovely place. But <persName type="regiment">we</persName> waited long and wearily.
               The others have their <objectName type="equipment">tents</objectName> pitched, and our prospect seemed to be to roost on
               the <objectName type="nature">trees</objectName> or spread on the <objectName type="nature">grass</objectName>. Just at dusk and we saw a<objectName type="vehicle"> big <pb/> flat</objectName> come
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               cross – sharpers looking out for <objectName type="equipment">boards</objectName> - men quarreling over their piles – for
<placeName role="luxuries" type="camp"> boards</placeName> are considered the luxuries of the <placeName>camp</placeName>. The <objectName type="equipment">tents</objectName> were hastily pitched
               in the dark, &amp; we all took a good sleep. </p>
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