We started at 8 o’clock this morning and arrived at Bolivar
at 12 o’clock noon. We went into camp two miles east of town on the banks of
the Hatchie river. Our camp is in a fine piece of timber, well shaded. I was
almost played out when we arrived in camp; the weather being so hot, it was
hard work to carry knapsack and accouterments and keep up with the company. Our
officers are expecting to be attacked at this place and have put three or four
hundred negroes to work throwing up breastworks. There is some very pretty land
in this part of old Tennessee and there are some very nice farms. The timber
here is chiefly of white oak, but there is some poplar and beech. Bolivar is a
fine town and has one railroad.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 60
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