We remained in bivouac all day. The Fifteenth Corps just
came in on a road to our left and is to cross the Pedee ahead of the
Seventeenth. The rebel skirmishers are just across the river and our
skirmishers are keeping up a lively fusillade. Our engineers cannot lay the
pontoons so long as the rebels are on the opposite bank of the river and the
plan is to send a detachment above or below and cross the river after dark, and
flank them. The foragers of the Seventeenth Corps were put in command of the
colonel of the Ninth Illinois today and sent out on a raid to Society Hill,
fifteen miles south of Cheraw on the railroad. They captured and destroyed two
trains of cars loaded with ammunition and provisions, and then tore up the
tracks for some miles and burned everything in town that would burn.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 258
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