No news of importance. The officers are having considerable
trouble in keeping the boys from getting through the lines. We have regular
brigade guard to keep the men in camp, yet every day a few slip through when
the guards are walking in opposite directions. But now, every morning at guard mount,
the officer of the day gives strict orders that guard number 1 shall walk his
beat so that he will be looking at guard number 2, and continuing thus around
the entire camp, so that all getting to the end of their beats at the same time
face about and proceed as before, each looking toward the guard ahead of him.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 61-2
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