I went down town
this morning to see about enlisting in a battery which Mr. Little, a business
man of Davenport, is trying to raise. He was planning to raise a company of two
hundred men to command a battery of heavy cannon. But before night I made up my
mind that he would not succeed, and I did not enlist in it. I bunked with some
others in vacant store buildings, lying on gunny sacks. It rained hard all day.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 8
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