An order from General Sherman was read this morning, stating
that the campaign was over,1 and that we should now prepare to take
a short rest. We left the rifle pits at 7 o'clock, marched fifteen miles, and
bivouacked within five miles of Goldsboro. Our army is concentrating there, and
we are to get supplies, rest up, and prepare for another campaign.
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1 This battle proved to be our last, and it is
known as the battle of Bentonville. We took part later in the surrender of
Johnston's army at Raleigh, N. C. but there was no battle then, or before the
surrender, only a little skirmishing. — A. G. D.
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