We had an all day rain and the river is rising; the bottom
land on the east side of the river is already under water. It came my turn to
go on fatigue today. A detail of four hundred men was again sent down to work
on the break in the levee. Our chaplain preached to the regiment this
afternoon.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 98
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