Very pleasant weather. I sold my watch to Samuel Bair for
$25.00, receiving $20.00 in cash, the balance remaining unpaid. They have fine
macadamized roads out from the city, and there are men working on them all the
time, but they would be killing on soldiers marching over them.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 283
