Sunday morning we are busily engaged packing up to leave the
fort. Steamers are numerous in this vicinity now. Every day troops are passing
up the Ohio river, and it is rumored that they head for the Tennessee. Some
grand expedition on foot, as everything seems to indicate. We may follow soon.
Where we will go, we cannot tell; only that our faces are being turned
southward. I look around the camp to-night; I see strong men, full of life and
hope. They may go down there ne'er to return again. Liberty will claim them,
but in the years to come there will be a disenthralled race who will pass their
graves and drop tears to their memory.
SOURCES: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 23-4
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