[From the diary of Wesley Hammond]
Saturday
Morning very rainy – Helped
dig a lot of potatoes for our Com-
pany – Heard the news that
Maryland & Kentucky had se-
ceded. At night was Corporal
of picket guard. H. B. S. and
I were stationed on a hill under
a large pine tree where we a-
mused ourselves by talking over
old love scrapes etc. – About
3 o’clock A.M. we heard the
report of one of the Sentinels
guns – what caused him to fire
I know not. To day read
21 chapters in the Bible.
Confederate soldier in the Dixie Greys (42nd Virginia, Co. E.)
MSS 5526