We had no drill today. Instead of drilling all went to
meeting. President Lincoln issued a proclamation asking that the day be
observed as a day of fasting and prayer, and our company attended service twice
today, in a body. The war has cast a gloom over the whole country; people are
beginning to believe that it will be a long siege before it is over with.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 10
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