We left our fires early this morning and marching toward
Marietta, went into bivouac for the remainder of the day and night within five
miles of the town. Captain Anderson of Company A, Eleventh Iowa, arrived from
Iowa this evening with one hundred and fifty conscripts for our regiment to
serve one year. They are a fine lot of men to be conscripts; however, only half
of them were drafted, the others being substitutes, each receiving from $150 to
$800.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 226
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