Saturday, December 7. — Another warm, bright day — the roads improving. People come twenty-five miles to take the oath. How much is due to a returning sense of loyalty and how much to the want of coffee and salt, is more than I know. They are sick of the war, ready for peace and a return to the old Union. Many of them have been Secessionists, some of them, soldiers.
Rode Schooley’s high-tailed, showy horse twice. Drilled after evening parade. Met the sergeants for instruction tonight.
