Our nice weather was broken today by an all day rain. A
large number of transports loaded with troops went down the river; the
Twenty-fourth Iowa was on board. I went down to the sutler in the Fifteenth
Iowa camp and bought a bushel of potatoes, paying $2.50.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 109
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