We started early this morning and marched to within five
miles of Rome by midnight, when we went into bivouac for the rest of the night.
We had to move very slowly on account of the teams giving out. Our horses and
mules are getting very thin. This is because of the scarcity of forage, and
then, too, the roads are very rough, which made it hard on them. Hood's force
is thought to be about thirty thousand, while our army numbers fifty thousand
men, of all arms, and the men are in fine shape. We received a large mail at
Kingston, when passing through there this evening.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 221
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