Our division received orders to get ready to March. All the
sick are being taken to the hospital and we are storing our supplies1
upon the boat. We have to go in light marching order, one tent to each company
and with five days' rations.
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1 Tents and extra baggage. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 111
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