Received orders to fix up for review. We packed our
knapsacks, filled our haversacks and canteens, and with our arms formed in
line, all as if we were going on a long march. At 10 o'clock we marched down
through the streets of Davenport and were reviewed by Adjutant General Baker.
Then we marched back to camp. Our regiment with the new uniforms was quite a
drawing card, for it seemed as if all of the townspeople were out to see us
pass by.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 16-7
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