Friday, April 15, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 17, 1864

This morning finds us at Winchester after an all night's march. The night was hot. Did not have the hot sun beating down upon us. The return march was slow. After a few hours' rest and something to eat, pushed on to Berryville, east of Winchester. Reached there at night, tired out. A march of thirty miles from Cedar Creek. The enemy following on after us. Orders to remain here over night. Owing to the hot dry weather, the brooks and creeks are dry, no wading.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary, 1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 114

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