We camped on a large “secesh” plantation last night. The
owner of it being a general in the rebel army, we made ourselves at home,
killing all the cattle that we wanted and taking all the honey that we could
carry away with us. We started at 8 o’clock this morning and marched fourteen
miles, when we bivouacked for the night.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 60
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