We had some rain early this morning, followed by a heavy fog
which lasted all day. Boats loaded with troops are constantly arriving and
landing at different points along the river where the men are going into camp.
Some of our boys are quite sick, the result of using the river water on the way
down. Accidents are not common here considering the large number of men
crowding as they do, but today a private of the First Kansas Infantry fell from
the boat and was drowned before help could reach him.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 96
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