We left Washington City at 1 a. m. and arrived at the
junction of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad about 8 o'clock, where we changed
to the line running through Harper's Ferry, which place we passed through. Our
brigade is in the rear, the Eleventh Iowa being on the rear train, as we were
the last regiment to leave Washington, D. C. The day was very hot and many of
us being crowded on the open cars suffered terribly under the hot sun. We
arrived at Cumberland about midnight, where we were served with hot coffee by
the Sanitary Commission Society.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 281
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