Friday, 27th—We received orders to clean up for general inspection. Captain Beach of Company H of the Eleventh Iowa having been appointed to go after and bring back any deserters from our brigade, left for Iowa to get all such found in the State.

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