In saddle at 4 A. M. Went into the timber for breakfast. Ate
with Co. “E.” Good appetite, having eaten nothing of consequence since the
morning before. Reconnoitering party was sent south to learn the position and
force of the enemy supposed to be encamped 15 miles south. The command encamped
in favorable positions in and near Round Grove, the former camp of Col. Coffee.
The women in the grove reported that he moved at sundown. One sick man of
Coffee's left behind, reported that he had 600 and Standwaite 1,000. Raines'
unknown. Variously estimated from 500 to 2000. At night the First Battalion
went out on picket. Some Co. H men fired on our patrol. Slept with Delos in No.
3.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 17
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