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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