We marched about three miles this morning and then went into
bivouac to await further orders. The report is that we are now ready to make
the grand raid through South Carolina. The Seventeenth and Fifteenth Corps are
to form the right wing, as in the campaign through Georgia, with General O. O.
Howard in command. General Slocum is in command of the left wing, composed of
the other two corps, the Fourteenth and Twentieth, while Kilpatrick's cavalry
will take the flanks as rear guard. General Sherman is in chief command.
General Foster, it is said, is either to remain here or move to Charleston.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 249
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