Huntsville, Saturday, Feb. 6. A wet night and muddy morning. On guard—to appear on guard mounting with polished boots, all things accordingly. Spent the hours not on duty reading Ned Buntline’s thrilling tale of the times Ella Adams. One hundred horses distributed to the three Batteries by chief of artillery, having received them from Nashville. “We had thirty-two beautiful animals, large and fat. —— and J. Keller returned, the former after five months’ confinement in military prison at Vicksburg, the other from hospital, wounded at Champion Hills. They were gladly welcomed.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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