We marched fifteen miles today. Our brigade had the cattle
in charge and at 10 o'clock we had to stop and let them rest, the heat and
rough stony roads being too much for them. The other brigades of our corps
passed us, going on ahead. We started again at 4 o'clock, but did not catch up
with our corps and go into bivouac until late at night. In the country we
passed through, only now and then are there small clearings with log huts. The
people are poor and schoolhouses are very scarce through here.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 188
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