Heavy rains fall,
swelling the rivers and making the roads almost impassable. Passing through
Camden, we arrive at Cheraw on the 2d of March. Colonel Perrin is now in
command of the mounted portion of the regiment, and Major Johnson the
non-mounted portion. We remain in camp here one day and two nights. From this
point an expedition of cavalry and mounted infantry was sent down to Florence,
which was joined by Colonel Perrin and the mounted portiou of the Seventh, but
it encountered both cavalry and infantry, and returned having only broken up in
part the branch road from Florence to Cheraw.
Leaving Cheraw, and
after crossing the Pedee river we are again put in motion, moving towards
Fayetteville, North Carolina.
SOURCE: abstracted
from Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, p. 298
