It rained nearly all
day, commencing about 1 o'clock in the night. I being on picket had a hard
night of it, for the water at our post in the bottom stood about a foot deep.
It was a fearful night to be out on picket; one could not even find protection
standing, let alone lying down.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 158
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