- Joined
- Oct 10, 2012
- Location
- Mt. Jackson, Va
Camp in Pine Grove, near Rocky Creek
Fourteenth Day out of Gilkeson County, Ga.
November 29, 1864
He is proverbially the most restless man in the army at night - never sleeps a night straight through, and frequently comes out and pokes round in this style,disregarding all remonstrance as to taking cold. His staff think that just such a freak at Rome brought on the neuralgia attack in the right arm and shoulder which has been troubling him for a month. Joined him and chatted about weather, climate, late hours etc. etc. Says he always wakes up about 3 or 4 a.m. and can't sleep til after daylight; and always likes at that hour to be up and about camp - " best time to hear any movement at a distance ." He makes up by snatches of sleep in daytime. I asked him today if any truth in story of newspapers about two or three soldiers seeing him ( unrecognized ) lying asleep in fence corner one day on Atlanta Campaign....
Major Henry Hitchcock
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore
Page 378
Fourteenth Day out of Gilkeson County, Ga.
November 29, 1864
He is proverbially the most restless man in the army at night - never sleeps a night straight through, and frequently comes out and pokes round in this style,disregarding all remonstrance as to taking cold. His staff think that just such a freak at Rome brought on the neuralgia attack in the right arm and shoulder which has been troubling him for a month. Joined him and chatted about weather, climate, late hours etc. etc. Says he always wakes up about 3 or 4 a.m. and can't sleep til after daylight; and always likes at that hour to be up and about camp - " best time to hear any movement at a distance ." He makes up by snatches of sleep in daytime. I asked him today if any truth in story of newspapers about two or three soldiers seeing him ( unrecognized ) lying asleep in fence corner one day on Atlanta Campaign....
Major Henry Hitchcock
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore
Page 378