Monthly Archives: October 2011

Today is cold and stormy.  The city of Annapolis, like that of Baltimore, has the appearance of a very old one.  The buildings are mostly of wood and are fast decaying.  The streets are narrow, crooked, and dirty.

We left Washington about 9 o’clock A.M. for Annapolis, where we arrived at sundown today.  After leaving Washington, we went back to Annapolis Junction and branched off there to Annapolis itself.  Just on the outskirts of the city we passed through a gate and encamped in a field well grown over with weeds and burrs. [...]

From October 3 to October 8 was in camp at Washington.  During this week I visited fortifications around Washington.  While here there was a little trouble in Company G.  That Company had some rather rough, ill-behaved set of men.  The cooks of the company were much annoyed by constant complaints among the men regarding their [...]

Today we went into camp about a mile from the capitol, and in full view of the city.  We were in a nice green field near the road. I am on guard today.  Wrote to Sue while sitting on the bank of the road that goes into the city.  I had the pleasure of viewing [...]

Walked over to or three miles to the camp of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, I think, on Blagdensburg Road, to see a Smith A. Whitefield.  He looks as tough as a bear.  You ought to see the darkies; there are more of them than white men.  I saw the grave of a man that [...]