We have received no rations yet and have nothing but fresh
meat and sweet potatoes to eat. Our brigade went out about four miles on a
scout, to escort a battery to another part of the army. The weather is very hot
and about 3 o'clock in the afternoon it commenced to rain, the roads soon
becoming very muddy, for the dust was so deep. At dark we reached our old
bivouac, where we had been the night before last, and stopped for the night. A
cool wind followed the rain and some of us went into negro huts, built fires
and dried our clothes.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 75
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