Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

Friday, 15th–There was a very heavy rainstorm last night. We pitched our tents and built the bunks in them today, and are again quite well settled in camp. This is my birthday–twenty years old, and I have done a hard day’s work, setting up our tent and building bunks, after having been all night on picket. I have now served almost a year in the army and it has been an active year’s work, too.