getting half loads.
Many returned empty.

Reached camp by 5 P. M. Boys had been at work all day on fort. The
Etowah River higher than it has been since we have been here. This
morning a large field of driftwood came down, threatening to sweep off
the railroad bridge. Displaced several boats and the track sagged about
two feet in the center. Pioneers at work all day keeping off the
float-wood. Several of our boys went up to Allatoona yesterday. Returned
to-day, having been engaged in dressing wounds, etc. all night. They
bring the usual accounts of suffering that follows every battle. Many of
the wounded lay out in the cold rain of yesterday. A train loaded with
them for Rome, lays at the end of the bridge, failing to cross. The
wounded are being transferred to cars on this side by means of
ambulances. They must suffer terribly to-night.

Etowah Bridge, Saturday, Oct. 8. Last night was very cold, slept
uncomfortable. How the poor, half-naked wounded in the box cars at the
foot of the hill could stand it is more than I know. Lay here till 1 P.
M., when they were taken to town by land. No engine around. I am on
guard. All hands hard at work. It is slow work digging in rocky
formation. Pioneers at work taking out the drift in the river to try and
save the bridge. Two hundred fifty men of the Construction Corps tarried
this evening to repair the bridge. They come from Resaca. That bridge is
nearly all out, broken by rafts, supposed to be started by the rebels.
No mail.

Etowah Bridge, Sunday, Oct. 9. It is the Sabbath day, but one cannot
realize it in the busy whirl of duty. Came off guard at 7 A. M. All the
rest of the day worked very hard with all the rest. Everything else is
neglected. The day being decidedly cool, a big job was accomplished.
Never did men work more cheerfully. Buglers, corporals and sergeants
down to mule drivers turn out of their own free will and work.

Some hopes were entertained that we would receive mail to-night, but
none came. Played a game of chess by candle light, and now I will retire
to my hard but inviting couch.

Etowah Bridge, Monday, Oct. 10. Hailed the coming day with gladness this
morning as it was so very cold we suffered from it. More like Wisconsin
than Georgia. Found the infantry under arms since 3 A. M. and another
"scare" prevailing. Fell out to work at 7, pioneers helping us. Ordnance
train came up from town this morning and deposited their stores inside
of the fort, f