We started at 8 o'clock this morning, marched eight miles,
and went into camp for the remainder of the day. On our march this forenoon our
division, the Third, destroyed ten miles of the railroad east of the Oconee
river. The Fifteenth Corps is off on our right about two miles, while the
Fourteenth and the Twentieth with Kilpatrick's cavalry are off on the left, out
toward Augusta, Georgia. All is quiet in front. This is a very fine country,
thickly settled and with some very nice farms, though the soil is very sandy
and there is considerable pine timber.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 232
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