It is still raining, and our men have made a new landing
within six miles of Pocotaligo. It is at one of the inlets which has a channel
deep enough for small steamboats to come up. This will shorten the haul of our
provisions about twenty miles — no small item in this land of sandy bottoms.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 248
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