We had company drill this morning and received orders to be
ready to march in the morning. We have been at Holly Springs nine days now, and
the town is almost deserted.2
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2 When we passed through Holly Springs
going south, the town looked very pretty, and no property was destroyed. But
when the place was surrendered to Van Dorn by our traitorous colonel in command
of the small garrison, and that without the firing of a gun, then it was that
destruction followed. When we had to come back to find our stores burned and
live on half rations, our men were not in the best of humor; they did not care
then if the whole town was destroyed. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 90
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