The Eleventh Iowa went out on picket duty. I was on guard at
division headquarters, my post being in a large orchard, and my orders were to
keep all soldiers out of it.1
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1 Such orders soon got to be a joke with the men,
they in a quiet way giving the commanding officers to understand that they did
not go down South to protect Confederate property. In a short time all guards
were taken from orchards or anything which the men wanted for food. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 56
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