We left bivouac at 7 a. m. and marched to the Neuse river,
which we crossed near Goldsboro on a pontoon bridge. As we passed through town,
we were reviewed by General Sherman, passing him by platoon form, and marching
to martial music. The men looked pretty hard after such a long raid, ragged and
almost barefooted; but we felt repaid, for we had accomplished the task which
we had set out to do when we left Savannah. We went into camp north of town
just outside of the town limits. Our corps, the Seventeenth, occupies the right
center and the Twentieth Corps the left center, while the Fifteenth Corps
occupies the right and the Fourteenth Corps the left. General Schofield's army,
the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Corps, is going into camp in
the vicinity of Clinton.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 264
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