The weather is very hot and during the day the men not on
duty keep close to camp. There are some fine orchards in this locality and we
get plenty of fruit now, as all orchard guards have been removed. The men are
given passes and every day four or five from each company go out to get fruit.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 62
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