Aug 10 - Walked out to camp. Got into Major's tent. A short letter from home. A lull in public events. Warm and dry for marches and awaiting conscripts.
Aug 11 - Go on in my routine duties. Am not satisfied longer with doing without much am but to fill up time. Now try to have an aim in doing good and follow it out. The other way accomplishes little and becomes intolerably tedious.
Aug 13 - Ride into town occasionally on errands.
Aug 14 - Over 90 nine months men go home about this time*. Makes the regiment small. Hope for conscripts to fill up.
Aug 16 - Burial of F.A. Mansfield. Col. Herrick did not think [?] to send around notice of church as has been done and as I feared attendance was small. Quite disheartened me. Hot weather along now.
* On Aug. 4 1862, President Lincoln called up 300,000 men for nine months service, on top of the 300,000 he had already requested in July 1862 for three years. The militia call-up was General Order No. 94:
Ordered: I. That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months unless sooner discharged. The Secretary of War will assign the quotas to the States and establish regulations for the draft.
II. That if any state shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law, the deficiency of volunteers in that State will also be made up by special draft from the militia. The Secretary of War will establish regulations for this purpose.
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