Our camp is becoming more unhealthy all the time, and the
odor from the battlefield at times is very disagreeable. This is the result of
the heavy rains followed by warm weather.
Troops are arriving here every day and going on to the
front. The army is advancing on Corinth, Mississippi, and we hear that there is
almost continuous skirmishing between the outposts of the two armies.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 46.
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