We left Canton at 8 o'clock this morning, our brigade taking
up the rear. There was some skirmishing with the rebels' cavalry, which began
early in the morning before we got started. Bullets commenced to fly and the
guards formed a line to protect the headquarters' baggage. Finally, however,
the rear guard opened a light battery on the rebels, who soon dropped back out
of danger. The army, on account of an all day rain which made the roads very
muddy, covered only eight miles, and went into bivouac, our rear not getting
in, however, till 4 o'clock in the morning.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 171
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