It is again quite warm. Every morning at about 2 o'clock we
have to form a line of battle, so that if the rebels should come in upon us we
would be ready for them; but I do not think they will come. On account of the
very poor water here, several of the boys are down with the fever and ague.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 123
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