November 26.—We are all ready to make another move. Our hospitals are ordered to Gainesville, Alabama. The base of our army is changed. This will be a long, tedious trip, as we have to change cars very often. Well, there is no use in grumbling.
We have been packed up for some time. We are leaving a nice bake-house, the best the baker has yet put up, a new dining-room and kitchen, and the nicest kind of a distributing-room. I knew when I saw them going up that our doom was sealed as to remaining here.
There has been quite a battle near Macon, and we have had some wounded from it; but I have not seen them. They are militia.
I hear the men telling a good many jokes on them. One poor boy, when he came to the hospital, said the battle was the most terrible of the war. It was quite a severe fight. The enemy set a trap, and the unsophisticated militia were caught in it. I believe there were at least one hundred killed and many wounded, and I am told they were nearly all old men. The veterans whom I have heard speak of the fight say that old soldiers never would have rushed in as the militia did.
“Joe Brown’s Pets” have done much better than any one expected; they have fought well when they have had it to do.
We have some wounded men, who were with General Early in his late disastrous campaign. I have heard some of them blame General Early for not marching right up to Washington, as they think he could have taken it.
