[w]e strike our tents and move from our camp. The weather is warm and sultry. We pass through Corinth, marching in platoons; it is very dusty, and the boys almost famish for water. We go into camp two miles north of Corinth to stand as outposts for the army surrounding, and the garrison in Corinth.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 84
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