We were routed out at 2 o'clock this morning and at daybreak
took up our march. We covered fifteen miles and went into bivouac near Spring
creek. We reached Cedar Bluffs by 10 o'clock, where the Fifteenth Army Corps
passed us, turning on a road to the right. About noon we crossed the Coosa
river on a pontoon bridge and marched all the afternoon through a miserable
swamp. The country is heavily timbered with white oak, and is thinly settled.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 225
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