We reached Decatur at 10 o'clock this morning and went into
camp. The rebels attacked the provision train of the Sixteenth Corps and killed
twenty of the mules before our men could rally and put them to rout. The town
was burned before we left it. Things are marching fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 168
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