It is clear and quite cool today. My brother John and I went
up to Tipton this morning. Things are pretty lively in town; but there are not
many of the veterans in today. I went to the harness shop and bought a saddle
as a present to father. I called on Mrs. Willey, she and her husband having
been good friends of mine. Mr. Willey was a member of the Twenty-fourth Iowa,
but died in the spring of '63 at Milliken's Bend, above Vicksburg. On our way
back home I stopped at the home of Mr. Robedie and took supper with the family.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 179-80
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