It rained all last night. Bolivar has a town clock which can
be heard as far out as our camp. The town watchman keeps calling out the hours
till 2 or even 4 o’clock in the morning, ending with his monotonous “all’s well.”
The feeling of the boys is that all is
not well when hundreds of men have to be out on vedette with drawn muskets
ready for a fight, and that the watchman had better dispense with the
announcement until this war is over.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 66-7
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