The brigade received marching orders to leave in the morning
at daylight and we packed our knapsacks today. The talk is that we are to go to
Corinth. A small force is to be left here to hold the fort, and it will require
a large number to take it. Bolivar has some loyal citizens who will be
protected in this way, but we are sorry to bid these people good-bye, perhaps
for all time to come. We have been in camp here forty-two days and all the time
engaged in hard service — on picket, fatigue and patrol duty, besides often in
line of battle.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 67
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