A detail of forty
men from our regiment was sent into town on provost guard. Our orders were to
arrest all citizens and soldiers found upon the streets without passes from the
commander of the post here or from the provost marshal, and take them before the
latter for investigation and punishment.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 154
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