It is still raining. We left our dismal camp at 7 a. m. and
marched eleven miles, going into bivouac near Cheraw. The First Division of the
Seventeenth Corps drove the rebels out of their works on Thompson creek and on
through Cheraw and across the Great Pedee river. They captured seventeen
cannon, three thousand stand of small arms and a number of prisoners. Cheraw is
quite a business town and had been a manufacturing center for the rebel army.
It is at the head of navigation on the Great Pedee river and has a railroad
running to Charleston, South Carolina.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 258
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