General McPherson with the main part of the army left camp
at 8 o'clock in the morning and after an all day march arrived at Canton after
dark. They crossed the Pearl river at 10 a. m. and then reloaded the pontoons
and destroyed what remained of the bridge. Just before going into camp two men
were shot dead by the accidental discharge of a gun which they were pulling out
from the back end of the wagon.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 170
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