It rained nearly all day and changed the dust into mud,
which made the marching very heavy. We left camp at 8 o'clock and leaving the
valley, traveled over a spur of Lookout mountain nine miles across. We marched
eighteen miles today and bivouacked on the Chattanooga river. We passed a house
of mourning today where lay the body of the head of the family, he having been
killed just a few days before in a battle with Sherman's men. I never saw a
sadder sight. The wife and daughters dressed in deep, rich mourning were most
pitifully bewailing their loss. But some of our boys remarked that the people
of the South had brought on this war themselves.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 192
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