We left our bivouac at 6 o'clock this morning and marched
twelve miles. Within a few miles of Decatur we went into bivouac for the night.
Advance brigades of our army were skirmishing with the rebels today and it is
reported that the colonel of the Seventeenth New Jersey Regiment was killed.
Our men captured a provision train and also took some prisoners. Our corps
teams have been sent out for fodder.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 191
