We again receive
marching orders; Forrest said to be crossing the Tennessee at Eastport. We are
ordered to reconnoiter. Oh! how sleepy the soldiers become; some fall off of
their mules while riding along the road. About two o'clock, A. M., we come to a
halt at Lawrenceburg, and feed and lay down to sleep, but very little do we
obtain, for at day-light the bugle blows. The command is divided. Companies H
and F, commanded by Captain Ring, proceed to Waynesboro; nothing hostile here.
The report that Forrest was crossing the Tennessee has proved to have been only an
idle rumor. We go into camp for the night. We feast to-night upon chickens, ham
and honey. A scout
is sent to Clifton, Tennessee river, this evening, to see and learn what he can
about the movements of Forrest.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib
Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
p. 228-9
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