Our division moved out to the front about five miles and
went into camp again. We had to move because we had burned up all the fallen
timber around our camp, while at the new camp we will have plenty. It rained
quite hard this afternoon and then turned colder at night. The country through
which we passed is on a dead level, and the plantations lie idle. All of the
buildings and fences were burned by our armies operating in this part of the
state before our arrival.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 246
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