er. Tumor broken. Bad cough
yet. Excused from guard, it being my turn. Camp policed. Lieutenant
Clark's wife arrived. No parade. Mail. Carriages all painted over with
olive paint. Twelve on the sick roll this morning. Weather exceedingly
changeable.

Huntsville, Sunday, Feb. 28. Fine pleasant day. Attended church with
Cousin Griffith. Went to the Presbyterian church. A sermon fraught with
Southern principles. Services in camp this afternoon by Chaplain of 7th
Iowa. P. B. Moss, after a short illness, died very suddenly at 2 P. M.
It was wholly unexpected by all, and spread gloom over all the camp.

Huntsville, Monday, Feb. 29. Rained very heavily all night and continued
through the day without interruption.

10 A. M. the funeral ceremonies of Moss took place. The procession in
charge of Sergeant Hood, his former commander. Sixth piece in the lead
followed by the caisson on which the coffin was placed, the hind chests
taken off. The Company marched after it in column of detachments, his
own Platoon in front, officers in the rear. Mounted in this way the
procession marched about two miles passing through town. The roads very
bad indeed. Formed hollow square at the grave. Chaplain offered a short
prayer before the burial. It was a solemn but tearless scene, comrades
paying the last tribute of respect to a fellow soldier, leaving his
remains among the honored dead of Huntsville, over whose head no marble
slab and carved obelisk was reared in memoriam, but to him a rude
head-board was all that told of his resting place. What a consolation to
the bereaved mother in Wisconsin to see the place where he lay.

Mustered for January and February pay by Lt. T. R. Hood.

Huntsville, Tuesday, March 1. A dreary, rainy day. Huddled indoors all
day. Whiled away the heavy moments as best we could with dominoes, etc.
Mail arrived in afternoon with its usual supply of papers and letters,
and the evening was quickly passed in reading from the papers aloud. 4th
Minnesota returned from Whitesburg. Expected to start for home on
furlough but instead received orders to go to Chattanooga.

H. S. Keene returned from his furlough of thirty days in Wisconsin.

Huntsville, Wednesday, March 2. A very cold night, the wind whistling
through the cracks of our shebang. Slept almost cold. Ground froze hard
in the morning. The morning air dry and clear. On guard. Mounted at 9 A.
M. Third relief. No one put in guard house. L. Leach, under guard,