We were expecting to be attacked today by the rebels’ making
a charge on our front line and were ordered to fall in with two days’ rations
in our haversacks. We marched out about a mile, and forming a line of battle,
remained there till dark — about six hours — when we moved toward the right
wing and up to camp. The entire right wing of the army has moved around farther
to the right.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 49
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