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4-6-1862 p2-3.
\nstream, about one mile from the wharf. Next morning, after hitching on to two lighters, we set sail and arrived at Fortress Monroe at 11 \u00bd o\u2019clock on the 29th. Our troops were landed the same evening but I was detailed to take charge of the baggage which was taken up as far as Hampton on the steamer but we could not land on account of the great number of boats that had got in ahead of us and the consequence was I had to pass another night on board but it proved in the end to be the best thing that could have happened to me.
\nI got a good nights rest, supper and breakfast while those that landed got mutton but had to be out all night with nothing to protect them from the heavy dew which fell.
\nThe next day we landed our baggage, but didn\u2019t have transportation for it \u2018till very late in the day, then it was my turn to make up for the night before.
\nIt came on to rain about three o\u2019clock and I was out in it until 9 o\u2019clock and got very wet. When I got into camp, I found my bed lying in the mud. But it happened, as good luck would have it, it was wrapped in India rubber blanket and didn\u2019t get wet.
\n\tWe were encamped near Hampton for three or four days and were then ordered to move. I was again detailed to take charge of the baggage train, then join it, move that was made.
\nOne of my teamsters broke the tongue of his wagon off. That detained me for several hours and the consequence was I got several miles behind the company and didn\u2019t get into camp till near 8 o\u2019clock. When I did get in my room mate or tent mate had the tent all ready pitched after getting supplies and took over a news paper which was about a week old. I turned in for the night.
\n\tReveille beat off at 3 \u00bd A.M. After getting a light breakfast we were again put in the march. We marched all day and arrived here last night about dusk. It rained very hard yesterday morning and made it very hard marching. Our wagons got stuck in the mud and didn\u2019t get in until about the middle of the day.
\n\tTo day we had nothing to eat yesterday after breakfast, except a piece of pig which somebody had killed. I stuck it on a stick and tried to roast it in true prairie style but after burning the outside to a crisp I gave up as a bad job and ate it raw or that is raw enough for the blood to drip. But to my mind it was about the best piece of pork I ever ate.
\n\tThis morning I started out to forage for something to eat for the first time in my life. I went to a farm house and after waiting till near the middle of the day got a breakfast of wheat cakes and coffee and they told me that coffee had been selling for $1.25, for the butter .75 cents and things in proportion.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":4718,"height":2984,"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-300x190.jpg","width":300,"height":190,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-300x190.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-768x486.jpg","width":768,"height":486,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-768x486.jpg"},"large":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-2000x1265.jpg","width":2000,"height":1265,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-2000x1265.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"4-6-1862-p2-3.jpg","width":4718,"height":2984,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-6-1862-p2-3.jpg","filename":"4-6-1862-p2-3.jpg","filesize":4958510,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}]}}