It turned warm today and the snow is all gone. I was on
guard for the first time here at the barracks. We have to walk the beats with
our overcoats on. A man on this, the west side, of the camp was engaged in
cleaning his rifle today, when by some movement it was accidentally discharged
and hit and killed a soldier on the other side of the grounds.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 20-1
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