Thursday, May 14, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, July 14, 1864

I am with a large number of sick in a ward over a vacant store building. For the last four days I have had the camp diarrhea, and have become so weak that I have to lie on my cot all the time.1 But we have a good doctor in this ward.
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1 Mr. Downing has an entry in his diary for every day, but wrote them at a later date, after he was convalescing. — Ed.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 205

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