This forenoon we had a temperance speech by Wm. Roach of
Iowa at the headquarters bivouac of the Eleventh Iowa. Blank pledges of the
Washington Temperance Society were distributed and a good many of the boys
signed the blanks after they were filled out.1 The men mustered out
from our division, the Fourth, started for their homes this afternoon. The
Government furnishes them transportation to their home states.
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1 Mr. Downing was among the
number. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 280
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