Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, May 31, 1864

We broke camp in the early morning and started on another day's march, our brigade leaving at 7 o'clock and taking up the rear. We climbed the mountains again and after marching sixteen miles went into camp on the very top. This has been a hard march; the men are suffering as never before from sore feet and some, giving out, had to be hauled in the ambulance. Then, too, we are on two-thirds rations because of the lack of transportation.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 192

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