[from the diary of Wesley Hammond, Confederate soldier in the Dixie Greys (42nd Virginia, Co. E.)]

Singing in Captain’s tent in the

morning – in evening wrote to

Bro. Peter and Sister Eliza. To day

read 60 Chapters in Bible and

at night went out on picket –

was stationed about a mile from

the road in a deep hollow. night

was very dark rainy. a soldier

died in camp

MSS 5526