I was on guard today at General Todd’s headquarters. The
weather is very hot. The teams all went to the river for provisions. We are
establishing a good camp at this place. We raised our wedge tents up from the
ground and built bunks for our beds instead of lying down on the ground.1
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1 This was the first time that we built bunks for
our beds, raised up from the ground. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 53
