January 1, 1864 — We finished our horse stable today. Snowed all afternoon, and is still snowing at nine o’clock this evening, as I am writing this by the dancing light of a pine knot in a little hut in the snowy woods of Albermarle.

Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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