The weather is cool but quite pleasant. We lay in camp
awaiting the completion of the pontoon bridge. At 10 o'clock we began our march
and by 3 in the afternoon both corps had crossed the river. The Fifteenth Corps
had an engagement with the rebels on the 22d inst. near Macon, and after the
fight the rebels fell back and scattered, leaving their dead and wounded on the
field. Their loss was about one thousand, while ours was only five hundred.
Their force was mainly state militia and came out from town to attack our
approaching army. It is reported that the rebels are concentrating some fifty
miles ahead of us and are strongly fortifying themselves on the Ogeechee river.
We are on two-thirds rations, but still we have plenty to eat.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 232
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