Weather quite pleasant today. Our regiment was paid off this
afternoon, and we received our discharge. This makes us free men again and we
at once left Camp McClellan for town. I went to the Davis House and stopped for
the night. Mr. Hatch came to Davenport for a load of us.
I bought some clothing this afternoon, the first citizen's
suit which I was permitted to wear in four long years. I also bought a good
watch for $50.00, which with my clothing, $41.50, amounted to $91.50.
The Sixteenth Iowa arrived this morning from Louisville,
Kentucky. The men of our brigade, on being discharged, seem to be scattering to
the four ends of the earth; even the boys of Company E, after bidding one
another farewell, are going in all directions.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 289
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