Cloudy Inspection at 7.o.c Turtle soup for Breakfast Write to letters one to Hugh R one to Ham Dress Parade Orders that we drill 1 1/2 Hour every day

Warm in forenoon Fine shower in afternoon Comp Drill But no Battallion Dress Parade at sun set Receive one letter

Warm, drownded man foated down River Compy Drill 1/2 Hour in forenoon battallion in .P.M. Saw a Monitor No Dress Parade

Cold in Morning David K on Picket Drill in A.M & .P.M. River rising Troops still going up river Dress Parade Fred K Steel [i.e., Major General Frederick Steele] is in command of the army here

very warm go up Town two miles arive get one letter Draw two shirts No Drill this P.M. By a moonlitt Dress Parade

Cold & cloudy DK relieved Drill A M & P M Man in Co E shot through the Foot Dress Parade Great expedition Prepairing for an interior campign