Our corps is still moving forward, and it is now along
Nick-a-Jack creek. We learned here in the hospital that the corps lost several
men killed and wounded in the skirmish fights yesterday. This has been a hard
day for me, as I have to lie in the open without any shelter over me, the
hospital tents being so crowded with the wounded. I have been taking some
strong medicine the last two days, in the hope that it would break up the
fever.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 203
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