Our corps started out at 7 o'clock this morning and after
destroying twenty-six miles of railroad, marched fifteen miles, on the State
road from Charleston to Columbia, and went into camp. This is the finest road
over which we have marched in all the South; it had mile posts and our division
commander must have wanted to see how fast we could march, for we stepped off
the fifteen miles in just three hours and fifteen minutes.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 252-3
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