The snow continued today with a high wind. I loaned
Lieutenant Spencer $15.00.1 I went to the city today to purchase
some supplies, spending in all $1.00. This evening we received our
long-looked-for knapsacks with our extra underwear, which was quite welcome.
Those of us who were not fortunate enough to secure extra underclothes when at
Holly Springs, as some did, were obliged to wear one undersuit for forty-nine
days without changing. When we now cast them aside, some of the boys declared
that there was almost enough life in their clothes to walk.
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1 Mr. Downing informs me that, as was the common
practice, this loan was evidenced only by a verbal contract. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 94-5
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