Weather quite pleasant. We started at 6 a. m. and marched
twelve miles. Our march was very slow, the road being through one continuous
swamp. We had to lay corduroy the whole way. Our division, the First, was in
front of the corps, and there was some skirmishing in our front.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 267
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