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Oliver Boardman correspondence and journals, 1861-1863

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dirty and their clothes were about muddy as they could well be. they were about as forlorn looking set of hopefuls as one could wish to see but I dont [d-ing?] feeling as bad and looking as interesting as any of them. We heard that our Regt was at our old camp and after daylight awhile started for it. There was quite apanic up for untill [crossed?] by the soldiers on the out posts firing their guns to see if they were [ready?] to fire and it was soon [rumored?] that they were attacted again. then every soldier [?] if his gun was ready for action and he could tell by firing it and it soon [?] [?] the battle had commenced again in earnest. then the straglers began to hunt for their Regts especially the cavalry, and strange to say they all went towards the landing to [find?] Stores. they tried to persuade us to turn back as they were fighting out in front but our Regt was in that direction we had no intention of turning back [let?] what it might and we soon found out the true state of affairs. There was [askirmish?] though that morning between Forrest Cavalry and some of our troops on the Corinth Road five [or six miles?] from the landing, but it was of short duration as Forrest was [forwarded?]. we had agood view of the battle field as we were going to camp I wont ever forget how it looked, but it is impossible to describe it, so I will not attempt it. We were well received by our boys at Camp. they had not heard from us since we were seperated on sunday and had counted us among the unfortunates. We found the camp desolate enough though our tents were standing pretty much as we had left them. My first object was to go to bed. as it was [rest worthy?] day I thought I would spend the rest of it in peace. The next thing was to see how much property the rebels had left me but soon found I was not worth achange of clothes. The rebels had not carried off much of our clothing but some thing had been thrown out of the tents and tramped in the mud and alot of our soldiers from other Regts had carried off agood many of our things. the rebels had not left much of our commissary bakery or Sutler stores. everything [?] it was carried of or destroyed [?]

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16 dirty and their clothes were about muddy as they could well be. they were about as forlorn looking set of hopefuls as one could wish to see but I dont [d-ing?] feeling as bad and looking as interesting as any of them. We heard that our Regt was at our old camp and after daylight awhile started for it. There was quite apanic up for untill [crossed?] by the soldiers on the out posts firing their guns to see if they were [ready?] to fire and it was soon [rumored?] that they were attacted again. then every soldier [?] if his gun was ready for action and he could tell by firing it and it soon [?] [?] the battle had commenced again in earnest. then the straglers began to hunt for their Regts especially the cavalry, and strange to say they all went towards the landing to [find?] Stores. they tried to persuade us to turn back as they were fighting out in front but our Regt was in that direction we had no intention of turning back [let?] what it might and we soon found out the true state of affairs. There was [askirmish?] though that morning between Forrest Cavalry and some of our troops on the Corinth Road five [or six miles?] from the landing, but it was of short duration as Forrest was [forwarded?]. we had agood view of the battle field as we were going to camp I wont ever forget how it looked, but it is impossible to describe it, so I will not attempt it. We were well received by our boys at Camp. they had not heard from us since we were seperated on sunday and had counted us among the unfortunates. We found the camp desolate enough though our tents were standing pretty much as we had left them. My first object was to go to bed. as it was [rest worthy?] day I thought I would spend the rest of it in peace. The next thing was to see how much property the rebels had left me but soon found I was not worth achange of clothes. The rebels had not carried off much of our clothing but some thing had been thrown out of the tents and tramped in the mud and alot of our soldiers from other Regts had carried off agood many of our things. the rebels had not left much of our commissary bakery or Sutler stores. everything [?] it was carried of or destroyed [?]