The Eleventh had
regimental inspection with accouterments and full dress. The boys are
continuing to re-enlist for three years or during the war. Officers from the
corps headquarters are out among the different regiments urging reenlistments.
They argue that the war will be over anyway by the time the first three-year
service shall have expired, and they might as well avail themselves of the extra
bounty. Then, too, they say, “What a fine thing it would be to be called a
veteran of the war!”
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 157
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