To rotate the image, hold down SHIFT and ALT on your keyboard, and then click and drag on the page.

Download page

This transcription is complete!

found where Mr Cannon ball

had left his mark in a number

of places when the skirmush took

place there last spring there is

some heavy guns there at Munsons

hill the boys could not bear to

come back without some booty so

they captured a couple of handsome

secech cats and brought them back

to camp Fenton and when we marched

back through the city some of the men

sliped out of the ranks and got some

whisky and got drunk and murdered

their poor prisoners.  I am ashamed to

say that this happened in our company

one of the men was a corporal he was

reduced to the ranks  we blackguard

the poor fellow and tell him that

the Colonel reduced him for treating

the prisoners so barbarously.  we

arrived in camp about one oclock  the

men were pretty tiered.  the one hundre[th]

NY V regt came here to day from Bufulo