Everything is very quiet. We learned that Alexander Ragan of
Company E died at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, on the 9th of this month. His is
the first death in our company since August 3, 1862, when Ebenezer McCullough
died at Corinth, Mississippi, on that date.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 144
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