This is a clear, warm day. We disembarked early this morning
and marching out about one mile from the river to Sparrow's plantation, we
pitched our tents on the large lawn of the plantation house, bordering the
lake. Mr. Sparrow, the owner, is a congressman in the rebel congress, and he
and his family having gone away, left their negroes in charge of the plantation.
Our colonel has established his headquarters in the plantation house. The First
Kansas out on scout duty today got into a skirmish with the rebels and lost two
men killed and eight wounded.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 99-100
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