Everybody is now busy in the routine duties of camp life.
The Government is having some deep wells drilled here in our camp; one of them
is now completed and we are enjoying plenty of good water, although it is quite
a job to draw it. We draw the water by means of a bucket attached to the end of
a rope which runs upon a pulley fastened upon a tall pine tree standing near
the well. The bucket is about four feet long and has a valve in the bottom.
There are always some of the men at the well waiting for their turn to draw
water.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 77
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