An average day in a Confederate life

Today was decently better than the rest. We woke up at 5:00 am, had our morning drills, ate, and then had some practice at the range. It was a nice morning. 7:00 am I took a “walk” around, I was really on guard duty but there the same here. On my way at about 8:00 am General Robert E. visited the camp on the way to Virginia he’s a great leader wish he would run this camp. At 10:00 am we had another drill and a course. After that followed lunch at 10:30 am. The day followed on until 5:00 pm we had one last drill and 2 more laps of guard duty.  At 7:00 pm we arranged the camp had one last sweep around picked the new night patrol (good thing I wasn’t picked) and dismissed the last orders. I was assigned dishes…again. So then finally at 9:00 pm we were all finally “dismissed” to the barracks to end the day off.

In all the day was better than expected I hope it stays this well most of the time.

Jefferson Outsly