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August, 1862.
August, 1
The Judge-Advocate, Captain Swayne, was unwell this morning.
The court, therefore, took a recess until three o'clock. Captain Edgerton's case was disposed of last evening.
Colonel Mihalotzy's will come before us to-day.
A courtmartial proceeds always with due respect to red tape.
The questions to witnesses are written out; the answers are written down; the statement of the accused is in writing, and the defense of the accused's counsel is written; so that the court snaps its fingers at time, as if it were of no consequence, and seven men, against whom there are no charges, are likely to spend their natural lives in investigating seven men, more or less, against whom there are charges.
It is thus the rebels are being subjugated, the Union re-united, the Constitution and the laws enforced.
August, 3
Among the curiosities in camp are two young coons and a pet opossum.
The latter is the property of Augustus Caesar, the esquire of Adjutant Wilson.