We started our drove of cattle early this morning and the
brigade broke camp at 8 o'clock and followed. We reached Pulaski at 2 o'clock,
a distance of sixteen miles, and went into camp. Our road, rough and rocky,
followed a winding creek which I think we had to wade twenty-four times during
the day. I was corporal guard last night and having had no sleep, the hard
day's march has almost worn me out.
Good news came from the Eastern army, also from the
Cumberland army. The report is that General Grant has had a six days' fight at
Richmond and that the rebels are whipped and on the retreat.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 189
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