I went out as corporal of the picket this evening at 5
o'clock. There was in all a detail of one hundred and twelve sent out from the
two regiments, besides the commissioned and non-commissioned officers. The
guards are stationed from one to two miles from camp, where the cattle are
corralled.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 187
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