The sick in our regiment were sent away this morning,
thirty-one in all. Those who could stand the trip North were given a thirty-day
furlough, and the very sick were taken to the general hospital here in
Vicksburg. The men whose thirty-day furloughs have expired are returning to
their regiments.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 141
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