Wednesday, 4th Pleasant. E.I.R.B. Genesis 1-2-3. Dear journal, you and I are almost strangers, but it is not your fault or mine for we have been unavoidably separated, for I was ordered to march the morn I last met you, and have had a long and weary tramp through Dixie. I started at 9 A.M., were detained some by trains, but reached Tuscumbia creek near night and crossed it. Saw where the rebels had their masked battery where they surprised our cavalry, also the bridge that the rebels burned. We passed through a little town called Danville, marched 2 miles further then camped. The town was nearly deserted. A few families yet remain, also some of the farmers are at home and have planted corn, but it looks bad. The country is better than where we usually have been, but not good. The town is old and dilapidated and presents but a poor comparison with our beautiful villages of the north.
[orders and circulars Loren would, or should, have seen concurrent with his diary entries...]
Head Quarters 2nd Brigade June 4th, 1862
General Order No 16 } This brigade will march at 9.30 AM this day with two days rations in haversacks and two days rations in wagons. No tents or baggage will be carried, one ammunition wagon to each regiment, one to carry intrenching tools, and one to carry four days rations for the moving animals.
By order R. J. Oglesby, Brig Genl Comdg
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