We were off by 4 o'clock this morning and reached Big Black
river bridge by noon. It had rained very hard here yesterday and last night,
overflowing the river and causing the deep dust to become deep mud. This made
our traveling very heavy, and since the rain set in again this afternoon, we
moved on only about three miles and went into bivouac.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 131
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