A heavy rain all night stopped our digging for a time, and
the fatigue party did not begin work on the canal until 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. It is terribly muddy and the water hinders our digging; we wheeled
out more water than mud. The following strange epitaph I noticed on a tombstone
in a cemetery located in a grove near the town of Lake Providence:
"Remember man, as you pass
by,
As you are now, so once was I,
As I now am, so you must be,
Prepare for death and follow
me."
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 100
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