Left Camp Mount
Pleasant and got back to our old camp General Moorhead, at Columbia, Tenn.,
making a march of 11 miles. Return of a grand scout all safe and sound, except
two men lost in the battle of Lamb's Ferry, above spoken of.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 13
Left General
Moorhead camp and got to within five miles of Gillespie, after remaining five
days in the above camp, and encamped for the night, making a march of 27 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14
Left Gillespie camp
and got to a high mountain on the Fayetteville road, called Barren Point, and
encamped for the night, after remaining three days in the above mentioned camp,
making a march of 23 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14
Left Barren Point
camp and marched one mile cast of Fayetteville, and encamped for the night at
Camp Wynkoop, making a march of 19 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 14
Very rainy in
morning. We started on march at noon. Encamped at the Roman church at Richmond,
a sod wall around, 30 mounted Indians near.
SOURCE: Lewis C.
Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 5
We journeyed 26
miles, passed through the Alexandrian forest, encamped late. Bank's company on
guard, 48 men. Encamped at Chippewa station.
SOURCE: Lewis C.
Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 5
Encamped in the
woods after a march of eight miles; roads terrible, marching very hard.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 5
Left camp at 6
o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost
impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in every conceivable condition.
Crossed the Tallahatchie on a pontoon bridge of a very primitive build, being
composed of trees cut down fastened together with ropes and tied to the shore
with the ropes, small trees were laid crosswise and on this we crossed. The
rebels had quite a strong fort here which would have given us a great deal of
trouble, but Sherman's march on our flank forced Price to abandon it. The roads
on the south side were much better and after a wearisome march of sixteen miles
reached Oxford, Mississippi, at 8 o'clock p. m. I never was so tired and never
saw the men so worn out and fatigued as they were on this day's march. We were
kept over an hour before our camp was located and it seemed as if all dropped
to sleep at once. I could not but think of those at home who are all the time
condemning our generals and armies for not moving with greater rapidity, for
not making forced marches and following up the enemy, when they know nothing
about it. We made quite a parade going through Oxford as it is a place of
considerable importance. Flags were unfurled, bands struck up, bugles sounded,
and men for the time being forgot their fatigue and marched in good order.
Nothing like music to cheer up the men.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 5-6
At twelve o'clock
to-day our battalion left Clarksburg, followed a stream called Elk creek for
eight miles, and then encamped for the night. This is the first march on foot
we have made. The country through which we passed is extremely hilly and
broken, but apparently fertile. If the people of Western Virginia were united
against us, it would be almost impossible for our army to advance. In many
places the creek on one side, and the perpendicular banks on the other, leave a
strip barely wide enough for a wagon road.
Buckhannon, twenty
miles in advance of us, is said to be in the hands of the secession troops.
To-morrow, or the day after, if they do not leave, a battle will take place.
Our men appear eager for the fray, and I pray they may be as successful in the
fight as they are anxious for one.
SOURCE: John Beatty,
The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 10-11
Johnston dispatched
thus to the Secretary of War from Shelbyville:
My
army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigade remains
here to protect the stores until they are shipped south.
I
will be at the telegraph office at Fayetteville to-morrow morning to receive
any communications.*
After a march of
about fifteen miles on the Fayetteville pike, we went into camps in a beautiful
woods, where we had plenty of wood for fires.
*Rebellion
Records, Vol. VII., p. 917.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 135
Passing on through
Fayetteville, crossing Elk River, we went into camps on its bank half a mile
from town, in Lincoln County. Had another nice camping place. Distance from
Shelbyville to Fayetteville, twenty-six miles. Here we rested one day.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 135-6
After a march of
eleven miles through a broken country, we camped in an oak grove, still in
Lincoln County, Tennessee.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 136
We marched through a
section of country the principal growth of which was post-oak. There were so
many quicksand bogs that it was difficult for our wagons to pass. Marching
about eleven miles, passing out of Tennessee, we camped for the night in
Limestone County, Alabama.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 136
Passing on through
Athens, we went into camps about two miles beyond. Distance from Fayetteville,
Tennessee, to Athens, Alabama, thirty-eight miles. As it rained the night
before, the roads were still worse.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 136
clear and warm And
we marched about 15 miles to day on toward Camp Barton
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 16
Left camp at Upton Hill
at eight A.M., and marched through Washington. Went into camp at five P.M.
Distance, fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched to Clarksburg, passing through Rockville. Fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched through Hyattstown to Frederick, Md. The railroads at Frederick are
destroyed by the rebels. Fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at ten A.M.,
and marched to Middletown. Saw one hundred and eighty rebel prisoners on the
road. Went into camp at six P.M. Ten miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched through Boonsborough and Petersborough to Antietam. Saw a squad of
rebel prisoners on the road. Ten miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
