It is still raining every hour and the floors of our tents
are very wet.1 Our camp has become very muddy, which, with constant
rain and the braying of mules day and night, makes it a very gloomy time.
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1 We had not yet learned how to take care of our
health, for in place of raising our tents from the ground and building our
bunks about eighteen inches high, as we did in later camps, we just laid down
our rubber ponchos on the bare ground, covered this with a blanket, then lay
down with another blanket for a cover. Our bedding thus was often damp, and it
is no wonder that so many of the boys became subject to fevers and rheumatism. —
A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 44
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