The Eleventh and the
Fifteenth Iowa returned from Redstone, and they report that there was no sign
of the rebels out there. The rebels being out there was all a humbug. The
regiments were sent out there so that the officers in town could have a spree
on Christmas.1
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1 Many thought at the time that it was a
put-up job to give the boys a march — and I still believe it. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 159
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