Tuesday, 18th–It is cloudy and quite cool. News came that Fort Henry has been taken and we fired a feu de joie. Some of the boys are afraid that the war will be over before we have a chance to have the honor of being in a battle.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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