Left Columbus this
morning about 4 o'clock on board the cars of the M. & O. Railroad. Men all
in good spirits. Left a number in the hospital. Was sick myself but the
prospect of getting into active duty soon cured me. Worked most of the night in
getting tents, etc. ready. Arrived at Grand Junction on Memphis &
Charleston Road on the morning of the 21st; ordered to LaGrange; arrived there
by 2 o'clock, camped at LaGrange that night. On the 22nd was ordered to Moscow,
a station twelve miles west of LaGrange. Owing to the roads being torn up we
marched there, where we arrived at noon. Soon 30,000 troops were encamped in
this vicinity and the rumors of an early advance are flying. Not yet brigaded.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 4
