We now have company drill four hours a day. The fatigue duty
at this camp has not been very laborious, as the officers put negroes to work,
very few of our men working any toward the last. The lake is still rising and
already overflowing the bottom land at places. We are expecting to receive
orders to leave soon. The weather is warm, the trees are all leafed out, and
everything is growing fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 105
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