13 April 2006
Civil War Letter: April 4, 1864
You want to know how I am situated, well about five miles to the east of Richmond, in dry weather a very good camp in wet very good rice field. The water is now four inches deep in my tent, not quite up to my pine pole bed but expect it will reach it before night - as it is rising very fast, that don't bother us at all as we have learned to sleep with only our heads out of water and might forget where we were if it were not for traveling barefoot in the snow or sleeping in a mud hole occasionally. We can't complain though the winter has been mild and wood plentiful.
~ John Kerr Beaton, in a letter to his sister. Beaton would be killed in action just a month later. ¶ 4/13/2006 10:24:00 PM
~ John Kerr Beaton, in a letter to his sister. Beaton would be killed in action just a month later. ¶ 4/13/2006 10:24:00 PM
