Another wet day and I stayed at home all day. It is so
lonesome that I almost wish I was back in the army; although if I did not have
to go back, I could enjoy myself a great deal better. May God hasten the day
when this cruel war will be fought to a close, so that the soldiers may return
to their homes and friends. What a cruel thing this war is! Think of the
thousands of our brave men suffering in the hospitals and in the camps, and
many being killed on the battlefield. And yet, think of the everlasting Copperheads
in the North, how they sympathize with the South! Such men as they are not fit
to be compared with the negroes of the South! I would like to see such men as
they are be made to go down there and fight for the South, and be compelled to
live on mule beef at that!
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 178
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