Cloudy and windy today. We are ordered to have company drill
four hours a day and dress parade at 5 o'clock in the evening. This is all the
duty we have to perform; do not even have camp guard or provost duty. We have
no picket duty to do, as the Twentieth Corps is out in front of us. We are
drawing full rations now and have plenty of clothing. This is fine soldiering
to what it was wading swamps in South Carolina. Nothing more for this month.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 265
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