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“I am very well satisfied, not homesick, some of the boys are.”

Although I do not get homesick very easily, many of my fellow soldiers did. They became very homesick, missing their wives, children, and many more people, and I felt bad for them, but I was Ok.

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”We are kept very strict and constantly drilling… Reveille and roll call at 4:45 A.M.; 1st drill from 5½ to 7 A.M., when we have (what we can get) breakfast…The 2nd drill is from 9½ to 11½ A.M... 3rd drill, from 1 to 3 P.M.; 4th drill, from 4½ to 5½ P.M."

We do many drills throughout the day, and it becomes tiring day after day of the same routine. I don't get much sleep, since we wake up very early each morning.

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"I know how strongly American civilization now leans upon the triumph of government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution, and I am willing, perfectly willing to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt."

I am dedicated to fight for the county I am proud to live in. I must save the Union, for we should be one country, standing as one, United.

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“We have had some fighting to do lately. Last Friday week the 17th we attacked the rebel lines and drove them about 3 miles. On the evening of the twenty 2nd the rebels charged our lines but they went back faster than they came up. The next day eight hundred rebels were buried just in front of our lines.”

We do not fight a great deal, but when we do, it is exciting to me, because it feels like I'm actually making a difference, for I do not know what I would do if we weren't to win.

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“My health is excellent, we have had some very hard times. Now it is awful hot, hard marching. The rainy weather and short rations have made a great many sick men. I have frequently had nothing for 36 hours but a cup of coffee and a few green apples."

Life during the Civil War was difficult and tiring, because we had to wake up early very early every day, we fought only sometimes, and many people became homesick. Although my health may great, many men have become sick. Food is quite difficult to get, since there are many of us at the camp.

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Born: February 19,  1839

Joe was a White male soldier in the Civil War, fighting to save the Union.

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