The weather is quite cool. We are pretty hard on clothes in
the army. My bill for clothes up to this time is as follows: One overcoat,
$7.20; two dress coats, $13.42; four pair pants, $12.12; two pair double woolen
blankets, $5.12; three pair drawers, $1.50; two pair shoes, $3.12; three woolen
shirts, $2.64; one rubber poncho, $2.73; four pair socks, $1.04; one hat,
$1.55; one cap, 60c; one knapsack, $1.56; one haversack, 56c; one canteen, 44c.1
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1 Then there was that leather collar (“dog collar”)
to make us hold up our heads; it cost fourteen cents, but it was enough and the
only one needed during the four years of war. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 90
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