Company E had prayer meeting this evening in a vacant room
close by their quarters. It is reported that we are to leave for the South in
two or three days. The war has certainly struck this place a hard blow. There
are many vacant houses and most of the storerooms are standing empty. There are
but few men left in town, most of them having gone to war. Families are
divided, each member having gone to the army of his choice; there are fathers
against sons and brothers against brothers. They are so determined for the side
they take that many are killed in the neighborhood by their neighbors, and some
even by members of their own families.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 34
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