We started this morning at 8 o'clock and marched to the
Black river, where we bivouacked for the night. Our brigade was train guard for
the provision train. Our entire expedition is supposed to have about
twenty-five thousand men, composed of infantry, artillery and cavalry, with one
engineers' corps in charge of a pontoon bridge. The weather is fine for
marching. General Crocker's Division has started ahead.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 166
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