We started at 9 a. m. and marched seventeen miles, going
into camp for the night at Floral College, North Carolina. It rained all day
and the roads became very muddy. The First Brigade on guard with the supply
trains is in camp about six miles in the rear. We entered the state of North
Carolina about 10 a. m. and received orders that there should be no burning of
property; that any soldier caught in the act of starting a fire should be shot
on the spot.1
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1 This was a proper order, for the war was about
over, and the order was generally respected. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 260
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