Rainy Monday: JUNE 1, 2015

Today in class, we took a quiz.  Now that may sound bad, but we didn't have to hike through the rain on muddy roads in boots that weren't really sized to fit; we're not wearing soggy, hot, dirty clothes made out of wool or cotton; we don't have to eat camp rations that mostly consist of nasty biscuits or cornmeal "johnnycakes" with salted meat or maybe some dried peas for dinner tonight; and we get to go to bed on mattresses free of bedbugs, lice, fleas, and other vermin - so all in all, we're doing much better than your typical Civil War soldier!

HOMEWORK:  There is no homework tonight.  From here out, homework mostly will consist of prepping for our last quiz (next week?), editing and revising your essays, and preparing for retakes of the Pre-Civil War quiz and the Early Civil War quiz.