Note: This is one of many diary entries of Octave Bruso, who participated in the Petersburg Campaign as a member of the 50th New York Engineers.
Sunday April 17, 18641
Cloudy + Cool. Wrote to my brother Augustin. Wrote to W.H. Rahu + Co Box 2262 Pha. Pa. Wrote to the Editor of the Chronicle (Editor: lined through). Corp’l of the Guard in Camp.
Source:
- “1864 Diary of Private Octave Bruso, 50th NY Engineers, Company E” edited by Tom Bauerle, Buffalo, NY, 2010. ↩