This is New Year's Day and my fourth in the army.1
We did not have to work on the fortifications today, and as the weather was cloudy
and cool we remained close to our “ranches.” At 4 p. m. we had company
inspection. We are still on two-thirds rations.
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1 The common belief among the men was that this
would be the last New Year's Day spent In the army. Everything pointed to an
early end of the war. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 243
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