The engineers finished calking the steam tug and with ropes
attached to it some five or six thousand men succeeded in pulling it overland
to the lake where it is to be launched. I crossed the lake in a skiff to the
south side to buy some notions of a sutler with the Fourth Division. Among
other articles, I purchased a diary for seventy-five cents, for the purpose of
keeping a record of my army life. We were ordered to prepare for inspection.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 103
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