Saturday, October 25, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, December 26, 1863

The Eleventh and the Fifteenth Iowa returned from Redstone, and they report that there was no sign of the rebels out there. The rebels being out there was all a humbug. The regiments were sent out there so that the officers in town could have a spree on Christmas.1
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1 Many thought at the time that it was a put-up job to give the boys a march — and I still believe it. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 159

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