The 4th Division
still moves in the advance. We take the main Goldsboro road this morning. The
roads are desperate, the troops are compelled to corduroy the roads almost
entirely with rails. We march about seven miles and go into camp at Clinton cross
roads. Being now in close [proximity]
to Johnson's rebel army we are ordered to throw up fortifications and remain
here the remainder of the day and night to wait for the left wing to move up.
SOURCE: abstracted
from Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, p. 299
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