Oct 27 - Got to Luka at noon. A crowd of soldiers got commisary stores. 3 good letters from Ella. Camped on a hill near.
Oct 28 - Learn we are to have considerable marching. Are reducing baggage. Busy about mess. Paid off. Long letter to Ella.
Oct 29 - Mild weather. A.m. turned out of tent by pay-master being here. Boys got up a hospital tent and we had a small prayer meeting in evg.
Oct 30 - Rainy and stormy. Preparations for starting again. Henry cooks well. The care of providing is some trouble. See Mr. Bushwell a worthy agent of the Christian Commission laboring here.
Oct 31 - Chilly fair day. Labor, study and some preparations for tomorrow. Report of gambling in the regiment. It is checked and names of offenders taken. Arrange with Mr. Fry for services in the church in town tomorrow. Half of this month has been spent in Memphis and half on the march.
I have felt hopeful. More troubled with dyspeptic symptoms than heretofore. Have had satisfaction in divine things. Have felt in better spirits in the march than previously. We have a journey and new scenes before us. Death may be in the path of some one. Who is it?
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