We started at 7 a. m. and marched twelve miles, when we
bivouacked for the night. It is reported that a force of two thousand rebels is
in our front beyond the Oconee river, and that there has been some skirmishing.
We crossed the Savannah railroad here at Station No. 15. This station was
burned last July by General Stoneman in his raid toward Macon, Georgia. The
country is very heavily timbered, mostly pitch pine, but there are some very
nice plantations. The negroes have all been run off to keep them from falling
into the hands of our army. We are now on three-fifths rations and are foraging
for meat.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 231
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