Yesterday we made
short marches, halting at every good shade to rest. The heat was very
oppressive. At Clinton a brigade was sent to meet the enemy, reported to be
advancing on the Raymond road. The force in pursuit is said to be close up.
Cheering news from General Lee's army to-day. At nine o'clock arrived at
Jackson in a heavy storm, which raised the dust in great quantities as we
marched through the streets, and the rain followed about the time we reached
our camping place, a mile east of the city. It is probable that the place will
be evacuated as soon as the stores can be sent off—probably to-morrow; but no
one knows where this army is going. Old Joe is too old to tell anybody that.
SOURCE: Edwin L.
Drake, Editor, The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and Early Western
History, Vol. 1, p. 217
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