It is quite warm. We remained in bivouac until 1 p. m., when
we started and covered ten miles before night. We crossed the Pamunky river at
2 o'clock, after which the army divided, in order to get better roads. The
Fourteenth and Seventeenth Corps took a road on the left, while the Fifteenth
and the Twentieth marched on a road to the right. The roads through the
lowlands are fearfully muddy.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 275
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