It was cold and stormy all day. I spent the day down in the
city, and bought a few more necessary articles — spent $1.25. Five hundred
rebel prisoners passed up the river today, being taken to a Northern prison.
This evening we got orders to be ready to leave.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 95
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