We had a long hard day's march, with our brigade leading the
corps. There were some wide swamps to cross and we had to build corduroy roads
of rails and pine trees, over which to move the artillery. It was late before
we went into bivouac.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 169
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