[?] Cloudy in the forenoon
cleared away at noon [every?] [man?]
[went?] on picket this [morn?]
Capt W. G. Morrill had command
of the Picket line I had
ten men in my Relief
Captain Walter G. Morrill, Co. B, 20th Maine. A quarryman from Williamsburg, Me., he served previously in the 6th Maine and was known as the toughest man in the regiment [Thomas A. Desjardin. Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine] There is a photograph of him in the Civil War Recollections of General Ellis Spear.
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