The army left the Hillsborough bivouac over different roads.
Our brigade went in advance of the Sixteenth Corps to assist the engineers in
laying the pontoons across the Pearl river. This is a good section of the
country for forage. We selected twelve men from our entire headquarters' guard
of twenty-eight to go out on forage, and they brought in six hundred pounds of bacon,
twenty-five live chickens, one hundred pounds of honey and other articles.
Several of us are up tonight cooking the chickens, which with the other things
will fill our haversacks. We shall live well now. We are camping on a large
plantation.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 169-70
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