[On December 7 he was in the engagement called “Weldon Raid,” but he had stopped recording in his diary. Another soldier writes:
“Supposing that the campaign was ended and that we were now to have winter quarters, the men went to work with a will, and in four days had put up comfortable log huts, all supplied with fireplaces; but on the 6th of December orders were rec’d to march at daylight. The men suffered severely on this raid, many of them coming back over frozen ground without shoes. The distance marched was ninety-six miles.”—Ed.]
