Mild, clear, beautiful day[.] Put up body of a kitchen. Drilled in Co. Drill in the forenoon and Battalion Drill in the P.M. Gen. Washington […] returned from New Orleans Hosp. Rect. a letter from home from Mother & Father. Loaned Capt. Laughlin 4 Shelter tents.

Citation: February 15, 1865. Diary entry by Thomas Montgomery, Diary, 1864. Thomas Montgomery and family papers. Minnesota Historical Society. [P2812 box 1]