Left "Montpelier" this morning, marched eight or nine miles and passed through Orange Courthouse, taking the road to Fredericksburg. Nearly all of our horses are suffering with a disease called "grease heel," and if we continue much longer on the march we will have to leave many of them on the roadside. My old nag has "gone up," and now I will have to depend upon my legs to keep up with Jackson.
SOURCE: William S. White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 142
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