. Reminiscenes of the civil war; . r known inNashville, so the citizens say. Captain and Mrs. Hewittand William and I received calls together. We had callsfrom General Ward* and his staff oflflcers, and all theofficers of the 13th. In the evening we had all the ladiesin our regiment to spend the evening and to help dis-pose of the eatables that were left over. The band sere-naded us. January 2, 1864.—Still very cold, six degrees belowzero. The houses here are not built for warmth, butto keep cool in summer. Jan. 16, 1864.—A large party of us went in ambu-lances to visit the penitentiary. COLON
. Reminiscenes of the civil war; . r known inNashville, so the citizens say. Captain and Mrs. Hewittand William and I received calls together. We had callsfrom General Ward* and his staff oflflcers, and all theofficers of the 13th. In the evening we had all the ladiesin our regiment to spend the evening and to help dis-pose of the eatables that were left over. The band sere-naded us. January 2, 1864.—Still very cold, six degrees belowzero. The houses here are not built for warmth, butto keep cool in summer. Jan. 16, 1864.—A large party of us went in ambu-lances to visit the penitentiary. COLONEL LYONS LETTERS. Edgefield, Sun., Jan. 31, 1864.—I received between50 and 60 new recruits from Wisconsin yesterday, and * Major-General Ward was a distinguished Kentuckian, for manyyears a member of Congress from tliat State before the war. He wasa grand old man and I loved him. One of his staff was Colonel Ben-jamin Harrison, afterward President. Colonel Harrison was Colonelof an Indiana regiment in our brigade.—W. P. MRS. ADELIA C. LYON Racine, IVisconsin, 1863 OF THE CIVIL WAR 135 expect a good many more. The regiment will probablyfill up. Three hundred and forty-eight of my men havere-enlisted and have been mustered as veterans, and thenumber will probably increase to 400. I have just for-warded an application for the regiment to be furloughedhome. It will be about two weeks before we hear fromit. If the application is granted, and I expect that itwill be, we shall probably get off between the 15th and20th of February. This veteran movement is a grandthing, and the most discouraging to the rebels of any-thing that has transpired during the war. I feel it myduty to encourage it by all proper means. Feb. 7, 1864.—We have received our veterans fur-lough, and expect to leave here for Janesville the lastof the week, with between 400 and 500 of the regiment;in which case we shall reach there about the 17th, andget home two or three days later, Jerry and Minervawill
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