Fighting is still going on. A force of thirty thousand under
command of General Sherman was sent to rout Johnston. The Eleventh Iowa, with
the exception of Company E, went on an expedition1 in the direction
of the Big Black river. Company E was left here for picket duty.
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1 To join Sherman's forces. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 123
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