I stood out on picket all day. We were relieved from picket
this evening about dark. We were posted in a heavy timber about two miles out,
on one of the main roads leading to town. Water is very scarce and poor at
that. We have to go a mile from camp for our drinking water, and to a branch
the same distance to do our washing.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 52
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