Chattanooga, Wednesday, April 5. After reading the morning Gazette to find the painful “no news”, when we knew there were armies in commotion, the details came, and my lot was to police in front of batteries with thirty others, post teams hauling. Worked all day but nobody hurt himself. The mail has been very short for two or three days.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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