The weather has been warm and pleasant for a week. We have
our regular daily drills and dress parade. It came my turn to go on the picket
line again. The Thirteenth Iowa received their muster rolls, and when they are
filled out, the regiment will be sworn into the United States service as a
veteran regiment.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 163
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