I started for home, thirty miles distant, with Abner Hatch,
who had come down from our neighborhood with a team for the purpose of taking a
load of the boys home. We left Davenport at 7:30 o'clock this morning and I
reached home at 5 p. m. I found my folks all well. I am at home this time never
to go to war again. It was a fine day for a ride in Iowa; it had rained
yesterday, and though it was somewhat cloudy, the prairies never looked so nice
and green as they did today.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 289
