We have become somewhat indifferent about keeping our camp
in the best possible order, for we have been disappointed so often in soon
having to leave a camp which we took pains to build. We have, however, fairly
good bunks in our tents, made of brush and leaves. Our duties are very laborious
here, for besides the regular picket duty, we are almost constantly at work
repairing the railroad. Today four companies were on picket patrol and at work
repairing a railroad bridge. I was on picket duty with the countersign “helmet.”
The army is on half rations, but we expect more soon, as a provision train came
through today from Memphis. The Third Division went to Memphis. The weather is
clear and cool.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 90-1
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