Reveille sounded at 4 o'clock and by daylight we were on the
boats. At 8 o'clock we started up the Tennessee river, our destination, we
suppose, being Clifton, Tennessee. Our fleet consists of eleven transports and
two gunboats, one of them in advance and the other taking the rear, so that if
we should be attacked by light batteries from the bank, the gunboats would be
ready for action and silence them. Then each transport has a squad of men with
rifles in hand ready for action in case we should be fired upon by the
guerrillas. The weather is pleasant and everything is working fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 185-6
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