Company E reported
for duty this morning, and in addition ten recruits. Our regiment has more than
one hundred recruits. We signed the pay rolls this forenoon, and were expecting
to receive our pay, one month's, but as Company B has not yet arrived in camp,
the paymaster withheld the pay. I swapped watches with Henry Clark, trading my
cylinder escapement watch for his American lever watch, and gave $10.00 to
boot. The boys still keep straggling into camp, and all who have reported are
in high spirits and glad to return after their thirty-day furlough.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 182
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