We lay here all day awaiting the boats. Nathan Chase, a
veteran of our company, got into trouble with some men of the Fifty-third
Indiana Regiment and one of them shot him twice, one ball going through his
right arm and the other taking effect in his mouth, but neither wound is
dangerous. The trouble was caused by drink. The health of the regiment is good,
yet there are several sick, some with light attacks of the ague, and they are
sent to the hospital here at Paducah. The transports arrived late this evening
and we received orders to go aboard early in the morning.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 185
