Our regiment was withdrawn from the rifle pits, the rebels
having left during the night, and with our entire corps we moved about five
miles to the right. Our division stacked arms until 3 p. m. when we fell in and
marched two miles farther and again stacked arms. We now had to move over a two-mile
causeway from ten to thirty feet high, but the rebels having planted batteries
within range of the road, we waited to move after dark. Our teams were all sent
around about fifteen miles. We ran the blockade under cover of the night, the
rebels opening their batteries on us, without doing any damage. We went into
camp about 8 o'clock.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 236-7
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