It is quite warm and sultry. We have a man in our ward who
is very homesick; he sits on his cot and cries like a child. He has been
promised a furlough, and I believe that if he could not get it he would die.
All the wounded here able to take care of themselves on the way, are going home
on thirty-day furloughs. Three from our company, Thomas R. McConnoll, John
Zitler and John Hilton, are going. John Esher is not going until his wound gets
better. A great many of the wounded men are dying, for the weather is so hot
the wounds quickly mortify. No news from the front.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 207-8
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