All of them have the diarrhea and are scarcely able to take care of themselves. Not a coffin is provided. Lumber cannot be had. Shuler who came in crazy yesterday died today. If we remain here until July but few of us will be alive.
Some men joke and laugh while they are laying out the dead and seem to think nothing of it.
How inhuman and wicked this thing called War. It brutalizes men and crushes out all christian feelings. The brigade took part in the siege of Corinth, until the Confederate forces evacuated that city on May 30, 1862. During the following months the regiment also took part in various expeditions around Corinth. Their base of operations was Boliver Tenn.