The weather has turned cold. We left our bivouac early this
morning with the wagon train and at 10 o'clock caught up with our division at
Gordon, where they were in camp last night. Gordon is fifteen miles from
Milledgeville and is the junction of the railroad running from there to
Savannah. General Sherman with the left wing of our army passed through here
ahead of us, remaining in the town three or four days. We left Gordon about
noon and marched ten miles on a byroad off to the right of our corps, going
into bivouac near Irwinton, the county seat of Wilkinson county. This is a nice
little town, but like all other places we passed through, is deserted, the
citizens running away on the approach of our army, and leaving everything with
the negroes. All is quiet at the front.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 230-1
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