Left this morning at 8 o'clock for King's bridge over the Ogeechee
river at a point fifteen miles from Savannah, where we again went into camp.
All the torpedoes having been removed from the river, small boats can now come
up to the bridge and land. Two boats came up with mail and some other articles.
There were four tons of mail for the army. All is quiet along the line, but we
have no rations yet. We still have plenty of rice with the hull on, but all the
mortars upon the plantation have now been gathered together and the cavalry
have put all the negroes of the plantation at work hulling rice.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 238
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