We are glad to be at
home again in camp after eleven days' absence. Most of that time we were in
bivouac without any protection — two nights in soaking rainstorms. Our heavy
duties begin again — fatigue duty and camp guard, fourteen of our number being
on guard today. Our regimental payrolls for two months' pay were made out and
we signed them today. There is no news from the army in the East, and all is
quiet here in the West.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 148-9
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