We struck our tents early this morning and marched
twenty-one miles back toward Holly Springs. It is a disappointment to have to
retrace our steps and the boys are not as jolly as they were when going south.
Holly Springs is said to have been taken and our supplies cut off. We have been
put on half rations.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 88
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