I attended the
Scott County Fair again today. The attendance was about the same as yesterday.
A part of the Second Iowa Cavalry is in camp here, Camp Holt.
For three days now
I have been trying to find some new company in which to enlist, but not caring
to go into a company of entire strangers, I made up my mind to go home for a
few days. About sundown, with two other boys, Sylvester Daniels and David Huff,
I started for home, going with a Mr. Chesbro in a farm wagon.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 8-9
