We started on our march this morning in a rain which
continued all day. We marched fifteen miles and went into camp. The artillery
have the preference of the road and because of the muddy roads our division
wagon train could not keep up. Our regiment was on train guard. We corralled
the wagons four miles in the rear, where the First Division of the Seventeenth
Corps went into bivouac, to safeguard the train, since the rebels' cavalry have
appeared both in front and in the rear.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 230
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