“Homesick Camp” and Picket Duty near Hagerstown, Maryland

A few days later [mid-September 1862, after Antietam] we went into our “homesick camp,” near Hagerstown, Maryland for six weeks.  Oh!  The homesick boys!  I was out on picket duty on the Potomac River, watching General Lee’s army which was in camp on the other side, so I had no time to get homesick.  I’ll […]