We broke camp in the early morning and started on another
day's march, our brigade leaving at 7 o'clock and taking up the rear. We
climbed the mountains again and after marching sixteen miles went into camp on
the very top. This has been a hard march; the men are suffering as never before
from sore feet and some, giving out, had to be hauled in the ambulance. Then,
too, we are on two-thirds rations because of the lack of transportation.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 192
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