May 14 - Women peddling whiskey give trouble. Number of men get on spr[?] and are punished.
May 15 - Saw chaplains. Lumber got and seats prepared in a grove near camp for meeting. Page very helpful.
May 17 - Service in p.m. Many of the 43rd and more of the 39th present. Ladies present. Eve Fifer led the p[rayer] meeting while I went to church.
May 18 - Ministers' meeting p.m. Saw chaplains of hospitals and others.
May 19 - Visit among the men and meeting and making improvements.
May 20 - Hear of Gen. Grant's victories near Vicksburgh about the time Hooker failed lately in a bare ground attack on the rebels in Va. Yet their loss was great.
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