We took up our march at 4 o'clock this morning and journeyed
seventeen miles, when we stopped for the night. Our brigade took the rear, the
Eleventh Regiment acting as rear guard. The day's march was through swamps and
bayous and land heavily timbered. Now and then we noticed a field with a little
log hut in it, occupied by a poor white family, whose head was away with the
rebel army, or with a cavalry squad in this section.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 137
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