The boys worked all day setting up their tents. The boys of
our company cut down a red oak tree from which we made staves, set them in
trenches dug in the ground, and had just finished putting up the tents, when at
5 p. m. the long roll sounded to form in line. We were ordered to march to the
station to board the cars for Holly Springs, as the rebels had taken the place
and burned our rations. But we did not go, as another regiment nearer the
station got there ahead of us and we were marched back to our camp, with
orders, though, to be ready to start for Holly Springs in the morning. We had
expected to stay here several days and are sorry to have to leave the place,
for it would have made us an excellent camp ground, being on a south hillside
with timber just thick enough for shelter.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 88
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