We started early this morning and marching thirty miles
arrived at Corinth just at dark. The soldiers are all very tired and worn,
having marched about sixty-five miles over a heavy road in two days. We came
into Corinth over the ground we had fought over in the battle of October 3d and
4th. This battlefield is a terrible sight and gives one a horrible picture of
war. Our men having hurriedly gone in pursuit of the fleeing rebels, the burial
of the dead was left to the convalescents, together with such negroes as could
be found to do the job. Many of the dead bodies had become so decomposed that
they could not be moved and were simply covered over with a little earth just
where they lay.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 76
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