Our division started at 6 o’clock this morning, leaving all
our baggage in the tents. Each man is carrying sixty rounds of ammunition, and
only such teams as are needed to haul extra ammunition are taken along. The
whole Union army, excepting a small garrison left at Corinth, is on the move.
We are marching out to the northwest, but the men do not know where they are
headed for. We marched twenty-five miles today, and went into bivouac for the
night. We got our gum blankets just in time, as it rained nearly all day, and
the roads became very muddy, especially where the artillery went. The men built
fires tonight to dry their clothes.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 69
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