We lay in camp all day for the purpose of resting. But it
appears to the rank and file of the men that Sherman must have given up trying
to catch Hood, or else we would not remain so long at one place. The supply
trains were all sent back to the main railroad line for provisions. I went out
on picket this morning. The non-veterans of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Iowa
Regiments were mustered out this morning, and left for Chattanooga, from which
place they will start for home. All of the non-veteran officers from each
regiment, except two or three, went out with the privates. It is fine weather
for marching. No news from the Eastern army.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 223-4
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