Our regiment having received orders to take the advance, to-day we move
at 5 o'clock a. m.; about noon we enter the swamps of the Oknee river. Here the
enemy endeavored to check our advance, but from this great army's front they
are hurled away like chaff. The pontoons having been laid we cross the river, 2
o'clock P. M., go about eight miles, and go into camp for the night.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 280-1
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