Friday, June 7, 2013

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Friday, August 15, 1862

There was a very heavy rainstorm last night. We pitched our tents and built the bunks in them today, and are again quite well settled in camp. This is my birthday — twenty years old, and I have done a hard day's work, setting up our tent and building bunks, after having been all night on picket. I have now served almost a year in the army and it has been an active year’s work, too.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 63

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