Weather pleasant. I
was detailed to go out on picket, but the order was countermanded. There is
some talk of our leaving the place. It is reported in camp that on account of
the flood the work on the canal had to be given up, and that an effort would be
made to turn the current of the river through the canal, thus letting the river
cut it.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 99
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