War Diaries (October 13) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for October 13

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Benjamin Gilbert: October 13, 1780

You cannot conceive how disagreeable time itself appeared to me on my first arrival in Camp having Just left the rural enjoyments of Domestick life, and obliged to conform to the strick regulations and implicit obedience of a Military government, but this being become habitual and familiar I am tolerable reconciled to my present situation.

[In a letter to Rufus Hamilton.]

Benjamin Gilbert was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.

• Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org

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External links

• Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org