We struck our tents and at sunup started on our march for
Bolivar, Tennessee. Our guide took us on the wrong road and we countermarched
about ten miles, thus not being far from our starting point. The guide was tied
and taken back to Corinth.1 It
is very warm and the roads are dusty. Our road being on high ground, we found
water very scarce, and what little we got was of poor quality. General Tuttle
is in command of our division, the Sixth.
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1 I never learned what became of
him. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 60
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