Our army did not move until in the afternoon, because of
having to lay the pontoons across the Pearl river. The rebels had burned the
bridges, twenty-eight in all, after crossing. I was detailed this morning as
special guard at the Seventeenth Corps headquarters while out on this
expedition. Things are quiet in the rear.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 166
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