Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, August 22, 1864

It is quite cool and pleasant this morning and things appear quite lively in town. I wrote a letter to Mr. G. G. Evans, Philadelphia, ordering a gold pen, for which I enclosed $5.00.¹

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¹ Mr. Downing says that was the last of his $5.00, for he never heard from the order. — Ed.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 211