I was on patrol down
town. Things are quiet there, but the streets are quite muddy. The patrols have
strict orders to arrest all soldiers found down town without passes, as well as
citizens who are caught on the streets without passes. It is not a very
pleasant duty, this thing of stopping everyone on the street and requiring him
to give an account of himself.1
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1 Mr. Downing explained that spies in
Vicksburg had gotten some Union uniforms, and that special precautions were
again taken. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 161
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