Our company went out on picket this morning. There is always
danger of cavalry raids, particularly evenings. Some more of the sick boys were
examined this morning by the doctor. The boys were hoping to get a sick
furlough. There is some homesickness in the regiment, but a number will be made
well by a thirty-day furlough. I am in good health and it is more than a year
since I have had to report to the doctor, and then he marked me "not fit
for duty" for only three days.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 135
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