Etowah Bridge, Monday, Oct. 31. Weather still continues enchanting. All quiet. Expecting the 12th Battery down after our horses. Invoices taken of ammunition, cannoneers and equipments, preparatory to being turned over. Mustered for pay at 12 M. Four months’ wages now due us. We hope we will receive it soon. In the evening a general discussion took place on the “nigger question”, politics, etc. All agree on “Old Abe” for president. Further than that we cannot go. I was in it on the start and was getting earnest. When everybody began talking together, I pulled in my teams and retired.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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