We started at 5 a. m. and soon struck the Boydton plank
road, which was quite good except at places, where it was a poor makeshift of a
road. We marched twenty-five miles and went into bivouac for the night. I was
sick all day and in order to keep up with the command I had to have the doctor
order my knapsack and accouterments carried for me. Weather fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 274
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