The Eleventh Iowa signed the pay rolls this morning for two
months' pay. Six of the boys were robbed of $30.00 last night. Our regiment
drew the new rifles and accouterments this afternoon. The Government is fitting
out all of the veteran regiments with new equipments.
We received orders this afternoon to go on board the
transports at 5 o'clock, and we struck our tents and turned them over to the
post quartermaster. The Eleventh, the Fifteenth and part of the Thirteenth Iowa
are on board the “John H. Dickey.” We were ordered to carry five days' rations.
Our destination is supposed to be Huntsville, Alabama.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 184
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