War Diaries (July 12) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for July 12.
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Edward Hill: July 12, 1864
Stores closed. Citizen soldiers in arms. The streets filled with marshall [sic] men. The Rebels in full upon the 7th Street Road. Communications cut between Washington and Baltimore and B. & Philadelphia.
—Captain Edward Hill, 16th Michigan Infantry, Union Army
Frank Curry: July 12, 194?
Just another Sunday at sea, and hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Ship is taking quite a beating in the rough going, and everyone is quiet and tense, with very little in the way of conversation going on. The crew can see very little to talk about when the going is grim. Just short, curt replies to short, curt questions. Even the ship's clown takes on the mood of the ship. I do not imagine we are a very lively group to live with under such circumstances. And so on into another dark dirty as I scrawl these few lines in my daily diary by the dim light of the emergency lighting in our pitching stinking mess deck with its off-watch men curled up like animals on the sliding deck, trying to catch a few minutes' rest.