November 11. [Chattanooga] —Each corps of the army has hospitals assigned it; ours belongs to General Hardee’s. He visited it to day, and was much pleased with its order and its cleanliness. We are getting along much better in every way; have dried fruit, a few eggs and potatoes, and bettor cooks.
I went out shopping with Mrs. Newsom, and was quite amused at a bargain she was trying to make with a woman who had potatoes to sell. She tried to get them on credit; but the woman was inexorable, and would not give them; even with all the tales that Mrs. N. told of the sick men needing them. The woman said she had no faith in hospitals paying; so Mrs. N. had to come away without them, and wait till she got the money. She is expecting some—the proceeds of a concert given by the ladies of the place.
