We were relieved from guard at the roundhouse, and I
received my transportation papers from the provost marshal. I was promoted
today from “high private in the rear rank” to sixth corporal in the front rank,
my commission to date from March 1, 1864.1
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1 This
was indeed a surprise to me, as I had never asked for any office. The expression
in quotations was a war-time saying, a joke of the privates.— A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 174
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