We started out at 6
o'clock this morning, and by 11 our corps had destroyed twelve miles of
railroad. We then left the railroad and marching ten miles, over very fine
roads, went into camp near Oliver Station. A force of eight thousand rebels
left Oliver this morning for Savannah. They came into the town last night and
throwing up earthworks made preparations for a fight, but this morning they
concluded that they had better move on, or they would get hurt, and the
infantry left without firing a gun. Our cavalry had a little skirmish with them
this morning. The Fifteenth Army Corps is on the west side of the Ogeechee
river, but in advance of us, and perhaps the rebels were fearful of being cut
off from Savannah.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 234-5
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