Saturday, March 28, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, May 28, 1864

We started at 7 o'clock this morning and dragging along slowly with our heavy trains, went into bivouac when we reached Somerville at 3 o'clock. Most of our road was over very rough country and besides we had to wade one river, the bridges being gone. Somerville is a mere village with a courthouse, a few stores and about twenty dwellings.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 191

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