We left bivouac early this morning and marched eight miles.
We passed through Gooseneck Gap, about four miles long and quite narrow. The
rebels did not take time to block this gap. The Fifteenth Corps being in the
advance, came upon the rebels and engaged them in some skirmishing. The rebels
are still falling back to the north. We are now in a mountainous country, and
thinly settled, as it is so rough and rocky. The timber here is of chestnut and
all varieties of oak.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 222
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