Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, November 18, 1863

The weather is still warm. Our fatigue duty is not so laborious now, but the picket duty is becoming more strenuous if anything on account of the activity of the rebels' cavalry. The Eleventh Iowa signed the payrolls today.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 153

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