Helena, Friday, Sept. 25. Awoke to find the rubber over us wet with dew. Breakfast attended to with much zeal, the company cooks cooking coffee and sour meat, while privates and officers all crowded around with skillets, cans, pans, kettles, etc., containing potatoes, onions, crackers, fish, green corn, etc. After breakfast “Boots and Saddles” sounded, and all were soon ready for drill. I rode the center team on the first piece. Gunboats “Chillicothe” and “Eastman” passed down, as also several light draft-boats.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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