By advancing this
morning we discover that the rebels have all made their exit from South river.
General Corse again takes the advance. The South river bottoms are overflowed.
The bridge across the main channel having been damaged is now repaired, but the
troops are compelled to wade the bottoms which are about knee deep. Our advance
encounters rebels all day—Butler's and Wade Hampton's cavalry. We go into camp
at 3 o'clock P. M. It is now raining. Everything looks frightful in these
swamps where the men of war are tramping. Mud and water everywhere.
SOURCE: abstracted
from Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, p. 299
