Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson: Friday, October 31, 1862

I wrote to Locke's Mills pupils. Messenger arrived from Alexandrian woods at 7 a. m., 1,000 men coming and 500 cattle.

SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 7