March came in with an all-day drizzling rain. We remained in
bivouac all day. Large foraging parties were sent out, but did not succeed in
getting anything, not even enough for the teams and the men that went out. The
country is very thinly settled and the people here can hardly raise enough to
live on. The soil is very sandy and the country is very heavily timbered, the
trees being mostly pitch pine. There are some large turpentine camps about
here.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 257-8
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