We had another all day, cold, drizzling rain. We left our
bivouac at 7 o'clock and after marching fourteen miles stopped for the night.
With every mile the road got better as we moved upon higher ground, and the
forage also became more plentiful. Just after we had stacked arms to go into
bivouac, our regiment was ordered to fall in again. We marched out on the
Augusta and Charleston railroad to burn the bridge over the Edisto river, but
the pickets, on hearing our approach, for it was too dark to see anything, all
hastened across the bridge and set fire to it themselves. This saved us the
trouble and we went back, reaching our bivouac about midnight, after marching
in all about ten miles.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 251
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