Saturday, 7th–It is quite showery and things are growing fine. Farmers throughout here are putting into corn most all the land that is not flooded. There are few white men here and most of the able-bodied negro men are forming companies and regiments for the army of the North, to be under white officers.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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