I went to Tipton to attend the celebration of the 6th of
April, the day on which two years ago we fought the battle of Shiloh. I went
with a team, taking a load of the young people of the community with me. The
roads were awfully muddy and once we stuck in the mud. The citizens gave a
dinner in honor of the veterans of Company E, and though I cannot brag on the
dinner, there were a great many present. Although we had a muddy time of it,
yet all seemed to enjoy themselves. At a meeting in the court house in the
afternoon, Major Foster of the Eleventh Iowa delivered a speech before a large
audience.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 178
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