No news of importance. The weather continues hot and sultry.
Many more of the sick are being sent home on furloughs or taken to hospitals.
Although half of our number are sick with the chills and fever, yet a kind
Providence has certainly favored the soldiers of the Union armies in this
region; for though in past years it was a common thing for the people here to
have a siege of cholera or yellow fever, we have thus far been spared such a
scourge.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 141
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