It is raining again — there is nothing but rain and mud.
Company B is now in camp and we received our pay today, including $50.00 of the
new bounty. I got $63.00 in all. We received orders to be ready to move in the
morning at 6 o'clock, and go to Cairo, Illinois. It rained all day and so we
had to stay in camp. We had preaching here this afternoon. I had a couple of
likenesses taken yesterday and today I am sending them away.
“Disappointment is the common lot of man.”
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 182
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