Thursday, December 16, 2010

UNDATED

Here ends the 1864 diary of George Hichborn of Company B, 20th Maine Regiment.  In the rear of this diary are several lists of names of soldiers that Hichborn knew or with whom he served.  Here follows the most legible list, numbered 1-30.

La Voy
 Rathbun
England
Avery
Cooper
McGraw
Vider
McConnell
Depper
Tusler
Lantz
Naylor
Jones
Wrght
Warner
Westfall
Campbell J N
Poulton
Davis
Harris
Kepler
Knollkemper
Johnson
Murphy
Perkins
O'Hara
McComb
thompson
Bonds
Hitcborn



Saturday, December 17, 1864

we arrived in
Boston 8 Oclock AM
f left for Portland
at 2 PM at 8 1/2 got A good
Supplies at the depot
and then went to the
Soldiers rest and stayed
all night

Friday [December] 16 [1864]

arrived in
Philedelphia about
2 Oclock AM  got
very good Breakfast
at the Union relief
Saloon left ther
New York at 4 AM  2PM

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Thursday [December] 15 [1864]

cold and clear
this morn  we fell in
and went to Head
Quarters to get our
furlough  did not get thenm  until we got
down town  took us
boat for Baltimore

Wednesday, December 14, 1864

cold and cloudy

Tuesday [December 13] 1864

still very cold we got
our certificates for
our commutation
money today