Reveille sounded at 3 o'clock and at 5 we started on our way
to Waynesburg. We reached the place at noon and went into camp for the rest of
the day. The troops kept coming in from Clifton all the afternoon.1
Our corps, the Seventeenth, is all together again, and now in command of
General F. P. Blair. We have fine weather for marching, but the roads are very
rough and stony, making it hard on our feet. The water is plentiful and very
good, there being some healthful springs about here.
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1 They all left Clifton for Huntsville, Alabama. —A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 188
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