Thursday, March 4, 2010

Monday, March 7, 1864

Clear and windy Co drill in
the forenoon Battalion in the
afternoon had to drill to
Pleas the Laides ?] of the 20th
Maine Great Perfomances
now Maj Spear is in command
Parade at the usual hour

The Civil War Recollections of General Ellis Spear notes that in early January "came a remarkable innovation, unknown to us before in the history of the war. Ladies were permitted to come to a regimental camp." He goes on to note that two or three officers's wives visited camp.

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