Our corps, the Seventeenth, took up the line of march at 6
a. m. and marched fifteen miles, going into bivouac at about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. No foraging parties are allowed on this march, and no railroad or
any kind of property is to be destroyed. The army, by divisions, is to go into
bivouac when convenient about 3 p. m. each day, and about three miles apart, so
that the trains and artillery can get into their corrals before dark. We passed
through Forestville and Wake Forest, towns a mile apart, at about noon today.
We have good roads and fine weather for marching.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 273
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