There was some rain last night and the roads today are very
slippery, which as the country is so hilly, makes difficult marching. We
marched fifteen miles and went into bivouac. Our division was in the rear of
the Seventeenth Corps, the infantry marching at one side of the road so that
the artillery and wagon trains could move together and all go into bivouac
earlier and at the same time. The country is thickly settled. The citizens on
the approach of our army left their homes and fled to Macon. We passed through
Hillsboro at 10 a. m., and the town being deserted, many of the vacant houses
were burned by our men. We heard the sound of cannon off to our right in the
direction of Macon.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 230
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