We were routed from our beds of leaves at 4 o’clock and
moved on two miles farther in the direction of Purdy, when we received word
from General Wallace that we were not needed. We marched back to camp, arriving
here about noon, in a heavy rainstorm, soaked to the skin and covered with mud.
We had lain all night with rifle in hand, in a heavy timber, on beds of leaves,
without blankets, and some of the boys caught cold. The Eleventh Iowa was
inspected today for pay. Thus ends this month in old Tennessee.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 47
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