Pleasant weather. We started at 9 a. m., marched eight miles
and went into bivouac near Bennettsville. We are marching through a fine
country and have plenty of forage. There are no rebels in front of us at
present. We are nearing the state line now between South Carolina and North
Carolina, and our army has certainly made a wide path of desolation through the
state.1
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1 In our march through South Carolina every man
seemed to think that he had a free hand to burn any kind of property he could
put the torch to. South Carolina paid the dearest penalty of any state in the
Confederacy, considering the short time the Union army was in the state, and it
was well that she should; for, if South Carolina had not been so persistent in
going to war, there would have been no war for years to come. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 259
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