Marched hard all night and daylight found us nearly through
the gap; have marched hard — fairly raced —all day; brought up on the east side
of Goose Creek again, where we are in camp for the night tired and worn out. We
marched through Leesburg with stars and stripes waving and bands playing
national airs, something unusual for us to do without it's a large place. Rumor
says that our rear guard burned the place, but I don't believe it, although it
has the reputation of being strongly rebel — a regular hotbed.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 125-6
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