Dear Subscribers to the Greenup and Lewis Counties, Kentucky Mailing Lists, This is Posting Number Three from ~Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War~. On page 89 is the following passage (see below). The year was 1863. The place was Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi, about fifteen miles south of Baton Rouge. The Twenty-second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was one of the Regiments stationed there. "Packets plied up and down the river, carrying passengers, cargo, and letters and newsppaers from the North and South. The camp- dubbed "Spiegelville" after Colonel Spiegel, commander of the 120th Ohio- even published a weekly, single-sheet newspaper entitled 'Picket Post', which was a most informative and entertaining dispensary of gossip, rumor, quips, anecdotes, and news, with occasional articles and verse. Local merchants and army sutlers proclaimed their wares in it. Costing only five cents, it was a major contribution to life in the barracks. The issue of December 24 (1863), for example, ran the first installment of a "History of the 22nd Kentucky from Its Organization up to the Present Time"..." How wonderful it would be to find a copy of that newspaper's full description of the Twenty-second! One can only wonder if any copies of the 'Picket Post' have escaped the ravages of time and are preserved in some library or museum! The passage above was quoted from F.H. Mason in his history of the Forty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was included in ~Under the Flag of the Nation~. Sincerely, Randal W. Cooper