The weather is sultry. We occupied the day in cleaning our
clothing and accouterments. The long journey of eight hundred miles on coal
cars and transports was pretty hard on our clothes as well as trying on the
men, for we had no protection from the hot sun nor shelter from the rain. The
farmers around here are harvesting, and the grain looks fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 283
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