Twenty-six
miles to-day, and everything in camp at sunset. That is No. I work with 300
sets of wheels to the division. We have reveille at 3 a. m. and start at 4 now.
We seem to
have got pretty well out of the pine country. Hardly saw one the last three
miles this p. m. Have also about left cotton behind us. Tobacco and wheat
are the staples here. I saw as many as five large tobacco
houses on one farm, built 25 logs high. Notice also some very fine wheat
growing, now 12 inches high. Very large peach and apple orchards on almost
every farm. The trees look thrifty, but show neglect. All kinds of fruit
promises to be abundant this year.
The last five
miles to-day was through beautiful country, fine houses, too. The people were
all out to see us, but I am glad that I have no demonstration a la white
handkerchief to chronicle. The men are full of the de'il to-day. Scaring
negroes almost out of their wits. Our division is the right of the army. We
have been side tracking so far, but to-morrow we get the main road and Corse
takes the cow paths. I think that not more than one-fifth of the cleared land
so far in this State is under cultivation this year, and that fully one-fourth
of all has been turned over to nature for refertilization from four to forty
years. On some of this turned out land the new growth is more than a foot in
diameter. I saw a sassafras tree to-day that was 15 inches in diameter.
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