This morning we receive orders to pack up and move back to
Fort Holt. We cross the creek on an old flat-boat bridge. The roads are
terrible. We find it a very fatiguing tramp. We arrive at Fort Holt in the
evening, almost exhausted by the hard march. All seem glad to again be ushered
into their comfortable quarters.
For some days the effect of the forced march in mud and
rain, through the swamps of Kentucky are felt by the Seventh. The remaining
part of the month we remain quietly at Fort Holt, though sometimes it seemed
that the rapid rise of the Ohio would compel us to evacuate, but the waters subsided
without submerging us.
SOURCES: Daniel
Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, p. 23
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