Everything is quiet this morning, though for a while last
night there was quite an excitement in town when a fire broke out. We are still
lying in camp, with no particular duty to perform, though we are expecting
orders every day to move down the river to Ft. Johnson, below Savannah. We are
on half rations now, but today got large quantities of fresh oysters, all we
can make use of. They were in the shell and were hauled into our camps by the
wagon load, and sold to the boys by the peck or bushel. Governor Stone of Iowa
arrived in camp today from Morehead City, North Carolina. He came to issue
commissions to the officers of veteran regiments, and also to see that the sick
and wounded Iowa soldiers in the field hospitals of the South were receiving
good care.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 241
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