Getting an early start again this morning, we covered
sixteen miles and camped for the night on Oak Ridge. This ridge is on a dead
level and only about twenty feet higher than the bottoms where the cypress grow
so luxuriantly. It is covered with oak and fine large walnut, also magnolia and
a few other semi-tropical trees. To reach the ridge we had to wade across Bayou
Lee. Our cavalry had preceded us and routed a small detachment of rebel
cavalry. They were nicely fixed up at this place. Our boys went in on their
nerve at foraging.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 137
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