It rained nearly all day and I never saw it rain harder than
it did this forenoon. We left our bivouac at 5 a. m. and marched eighteen
miles. The roads are good now. The left wing of our army marched into Raleigh,
the capital of North Carolina, the rebels having evacuated the place last
night.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 268
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