Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, January 22, 1865

A detail from our regiment was sent out along the road today to help the loaded wagons across the deep mudholes, as they come through from Beaufort. It is reported that the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps have crossed into South Carolina and are floundering in the mud bottoms of the Savannah river.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 248

Burnside

The Savannah News intimates that Gen. Burnside, who seems disposed to ravage our coast and if possible to advance into the State, is a native of North Carolina. We think this is a mistake. It is not a North Carolina name, and we have never heard of this intimation from any other source.

– Published in The North Carolina Weekly Standard, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1