Holly Springs, Miss.
The bugle's notes awoke me in the same position as that I fell asleep in three
hours before. Prepared for march and started with the sun, in advance of the
artillery; passed through Holly Springs about 11 A. M.; passed through the
streets where twenty-four hours before the last of the rebels skedaddled. Holly
Springs passed my expectations in size and beauty, being the largest place I
have seen in Secession.
We traveled on in a
southward course towards Waterford. General Hamilton and troupe passed us about
4 miles beyond Holly Springs. Two miles farther on we heard two guns discharged
and heard rumors of a battle ahead. On the brow of a hill we were shown the
grounds where the cavalry were engaged in the morning with the Rebs' pickets,
killing a Michigan boy and three Rebs. Ascended the hill which overlooked
Waterford, consisting of a mill and a small creek, branch of Coldwater River.
Here the enemy opened fire on our troops in the morning with two pieces which
were taken. We forded the stream about 5 P. M., went into camp on the banks,
got some flour from the mills (ground by the secesh for supper), and laid down under
the gun on soil twenty-four hours ago occupied by Rebs, seven miles south of
Holly Springs.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, pp. 15-6
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