The Twentieth Corps relieved our corps this morning and we
moved to the right about five miles, taking the position occupied by the
Fifteenth Corps, which moved still farther around to the right. We went into
camp about 4 o'clock, and the Eleventh Iowa was sent out on the skirmish line,
where we have good works built by the Fifteenth Corps. Skirmishing is not very
brisk because of the wide swamp between us and the rebels. We are still on
two-fifths rations and there is nothing to forage.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 236
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