Companies E and K went out on railroad guard at the deep
cut, to relieve Companies C and H. We are guarding the road for a distance of
seven miles. We have some very strict orders on guard; every man has to be on
guard all the time, as the rebels may come out of the brush at any moment, and
if we should be caught napping, some of us would surely be killed.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 66
No comments:
Post a Comment