Quite warm. It rained very hard this afternoon. There is no
news of any importance. Everything appears so dull and the time passes so
slowly. I am considered a convalescent now by the doctor and he has put me to
work dealing out the medicine to the sick. Our chaplains here in the hospital
hold preaching services in the churches of the town on Sundays. The
convalescent soldiers make up the audience, as most of the citizens are gone,
having given up their houses for hospital purposes.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 208
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