It is cloudy and cold. Captain Chambers' battery of six guns
arrived today. Orders came for us to embark at once, and we struck our tents
and got ready to start. After waiting six hours for the order to fall in, the
order was countermanded and we had to pitch our tents again.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 38
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