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Friday, October 9, 2026

Diary of Colonel John Beatty, February 22, 1862

Moved at seven in the morning toward Nashville without wagons, tents or camp equipage. Marched twenty miles in the rain and were drenched completely. The boys found some sort of shelter during the night in tobacco houses, barns, and straw piles.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 109