It is quite warm today. I was on fatigue duty, accompanying
the quartermaster's wagons into Vicksburg to draw supplies for the regiment.
The bales of hay and sacks of corn taxed our strength in loading them. Some of
the boys on furlough returned today.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 144
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