Dec 1 - Moderating. My mare improves under Brush's care. Got good letters from Mother and Ella. Sterne has been home. Major Park here. Col [Horace] P[ark] at Pulaski.
Dec 2 - Lovely day. Went to mill. Counselled Birmingham who is in affliction. Saw the ruined place of rebel congressman Brown. Met rebel prisoners on way north.
Dec 3 - Lovely weather. Somewhat dyspeptic and depressed at eve. Talked with Col Swayne about it. Have commenced again teaching the colored boys to read.
Dec 4 - Lovely day. Rode down to bridge and felt better. Got on well in study. Must accept invitations to meals with officers. Seldom see papers now. Good prayer meeting at evening. Bragg has been driven back by Grant. 6000 prisoners and 50 cannon.
Dec 5 - A plan of life suggested. My father's idea in educating me was to have me prominent. I have unusual advantages , good mind, good education, good habits, quite good health, nervous disorder producing over anxiety and some dyspepsia I can control. Why should it not be my plan to make myself more of a man. Thus I can do more good and please my father. Read, write, and improve in speaking. Not as Gough or Douglass, not as Thatcher, but as Dr. Smith, Dr May or Dr. Sparrow.
Dec 6 - Most lovely and undecember like day. Good attendance in chapel a.m. Got on well in preaching. Bible class p.m. A good man from the 27th there. A most excellent and full meeting in evening. Pull up in dug-out and float down Elk river with Col H[errick] and adjutant.
Dec 7 - Fair but cloudy. Chilly wind. Was more industrious than usual having received a new impetus. Felt a little depressed at evening on account of lack of religious sympathy. The prayer meeting was a season of great peace to my soul. Regret my diffidence as to personal exhortation. Col Swayne addressed to regiment on re-enlisting. Some excitement in regiment.
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