Weather clear and pleasant. Our division, now the Fourth of
the Seventeenth Army Corps, started out to reconnoiter. We went in light
marching order without teams or artillery and marching out about twenty miles
to the southwest of Marietta came upon the rebels' pickets, at a place called
Powder Springs. We drove them about four miles to the south, they not caring
for a fight, and camped for the night. Our division was sent to find out
whether or not the rebels are out in force along this road.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 220
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