Our entire company went out on picket duty this morning with
the orders to keep a sharp lookout for rebels. The sentinels out on the front
are ordered to stand in secluded places, as they are in danger of being picked
off by the rebel sharpshooters. It rained all day again.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 86
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