Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, May 15, 1865

We left bivouac at 5 o'clock this morning and marched eighteen miles. Went into bivouac for the night near the Fay river. The weather is quite warm and the roads are very bad.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 275