It turned cold during the night and the rain of yesterday
turned into snow which continued all day. Our camp is in a frightful condition,
there being six inches of snow on mud a foot deep. Half the men of the Sixth
Division go into town over night. The Eleventh Iowa received two months' pay
this afternoon, and now only a few of us remain in camp, the most of the boys
putting up in the city instead. We are expecting any moment to receive orders
to break camp here.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 94
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