Reveille sounded shortly after midnight and we had our
knapsacks packed long before daylight. Some of the boys were so happy and
excited that they did not sleep much during the night. At 7 o'clock we took up
the march, stepping to music as we left our camp. We crossed the Neuse river
about noon and after marching twelve miles for the day, went into bivouac. By
order of General Howard we are to lay over here until Monday, when we will
continue our journey. The Fifteenth Corps is taking a road to our right.
General Sherman's headquarters wagons are going through with the Seventeenth Corps.
The Thirty-second Illinois Regiment was taken from the Iowa Brigade and was
brigaded with the First Brigade of the Second Division of the Seventeenth
Corps. Our brigade is the First Brigade of the Fourth Division of the
Seventeenth Corps..
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 271
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