We had a thunder shower early this morning. The Eleventh
Iowa signed the muster rolls this morning and we expect to get our pay in a few
days. The Army of the Tennessee is in camp in and around Louisville. The
veterans are becoming very much dissatisfied, as they were expecting to be
discharged as soon as the war was over, but there is no sign of their being
discharged very soon; besides that, we are kept in ignorance of it all, not
knowing what they are going to do with us. Some of the boys think that we shall
be sent down to Texas on duty, while others believe that we shall receive our
discharge within a month or six weeks.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 282-3
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