We got on the right road and started at 8 o'clock this
morning. We marched twelve miles and bivouacked for the night. The weather is
extremely hot and the roads are very dusty. Orlando Stout of Company E fell out
of the ranks today, and getting too far behind, was taken prisoner.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 60
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