1862 November 20 New Bern, N.C.

[from the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F., 25th Massachusetts]

Thursday
Nov 20
Went out on company drill this forenoon
but it rained so we went in.  In the
afternoon I commenced a letter to Mary but
stopped to eat walnuts, and so did not finish it
and this evening i tore it up and wrote another one.

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