We are now on less than half rations and the outlook for
anything better in the next few days is not good, although a train was expected
to come through from Memphis today.1 The railroad east and west from
us has been torn up; the rebel cavalry seem to be able to destroy it as fast as
we can repair it.
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1 The train the day before did not have
provisions. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 91
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