Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, February 7, 1863

While waiting for orders, I went down to a daguerreotype gallery¹ and had my likeness taken. The water is still rising and the report in camp is that our division is to proceed up the river to Lake Providence, Louisiana, and cut the levee to let the water of the Mississippi through to the lake from which it would be carried into the Red river.

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¹ Among the numerous "camp-followers" was also to be found the picture man. — Ed.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 99