It is cloudy with a strong northeast wind. We started early
again this morning and after laying off ten miles went into bivouac. The
Twenty-fifth New Jersey was on the skirmish line today, skirmishing commencing
at 10 o'clock and continuing till dark. They lost four men killed and fifteen
wounded. The First Division of our corps was in the front, and their
quartermaster was killed by a ten-pound solid shot fired from a small cannon on
a flat car which the rebels ran up and down the railroad. Our way today was
through one continuous swamp, but we had a fine road, a high causeway which
runs to Savannah. Our camp tonight lies within ten miles of Savannah.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 235-6
