After a rain
yesterday, it is quite cool today. General Crocker's Division went on to the
town of Enterprise, to destroy the railroad there, while the Sixteenth Corps
went to the north destroying the railroad. General McPherson has his headquarters
in a fine residence in the west part of town and his headquarters' guards,
twenty-eight of us, occupy the negro huts close by. We are at present short of
rations and all I had for dinner was some tough fresh beef, which the more I
fried, the tougher it got.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 168-9
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