We lay in camp all day, but large foraging parties were sent
out. They brought in great quantities of forage — pork and potatoes, also feed
for the animals. The farming is all done here by the negro women and old men,
the able-bodied men, white and black, being in the army. We received a large
mail today, the first for a month. I got two letters and two packages.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 252
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