I, with Tom Toly, mowed grass all day. Swinging the scythe
was hard work for me and I did not cut as wide a swath as Tom did. Father went
to Tipton in the afternoon and upon his return told us the war news. I am
thinking some of enlisting and going to war.
Source: Alexander G, Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Edited
by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 4
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