Friday, 18th–The weather is very hot. Colonel Hare took the regiment out on the drill ground for battalion drill, but we remained out only a half hour, since four or five men were overcome with the heat and had to be taken back to their tents.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

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