We started at 6 o'clock this morning and marched about
fifteen miles. Our brigade tore up two miles of railroad. We passed through
Winnsboro at 10 a. m. The Twentieth Corps camped here last night and this
morning moved north along the railroad. About half of the town is burned. We
left the railroad at this place and marched eastward, going into camp within
six miles of the Wateree river. There are large numbers of refugees at
Winnsboro, well-to-do citizens having come from all parts of the South — from
Vicksburg, Atlanta, and other places too numerous to mention. They came into
this state, to this secluded town, thinking that the Yankees would never be
able to set foot on the sacred soil of South Carolina. They declare now that
they will go no farther, as it would be of no use, and we agree with them in this
case.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 255-6
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