This morning we are
ordered from our camp at three o'clock; it soon commences to rain very hard;
the old North Carolina clay roads soon become terrible. During the morning we
hear heavy cannonading, said to be along the front of Jeff. C. Davis'
Fourteenth Corps. We march hard all day, wading a good portion of the time in
mud and water, from knee to waist deep. Night coming on, we go into camp at
Morrisville on the North Carolina Railroad, having traveled twenty miles since
morning.
SOURCE: abstracted
from Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, p. 304
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