The First Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps embarked
this afternoon on an unknown expedition.1 They had to march down to
the coast below the city in order to take ship. It is reported in camp that the
rest of the corps, together with the Fifteenth Corps, is to follow in a few
days, while the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps, with Kilpatrick's cavalry, are
to cross the Savannah river above the city and start on a grand raid through
South Carolina. They are to move through North Carolina and Virginia, and finally
land at Richmond.
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1 We learned later that the
expedition sailed for Beaufort, South Carolina.—A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 244
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