It is quite pleasant today. I went out with a team after a
load of lumber for our company. We pulled down an old, vacant barn. No property
is being burned and destroyed in this state, and only vacant buildings are torn
down to get lumber with which to build “ranches.” There is a large amount of
land lying idle around here. The field where we have our camp has not been
farmed for two or three years. But there are some fine wheat fields here and
the wheat is just heading out. We have a fine camp; all of the tents are raised
now, and our brigade has shade trees set in rows throughout our camp. There
being no trees, we went to the timber and cut down small bushy pine trees for
the purpose, setting them in the ground. Our camp looked so fine that the staff
artist of Harper's Weekly took a picture of it for the paper.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 269
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