Friday, 30th Pleasant. E.I.R.B. Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. This morning our pickets saw no rebel pickets and so they advanced and found that the rebels had evacuated the place. Corinth is evacuated was soon shouted through the camp. Our forces of Sherman's divis. advanced and gave chase. We were ordered to put 3 days rations in our haversacks and then started. We camped near Hamburg. I saw several generals, Bob McCook & Fry. We camped in the open field without tents.
[Record of Events, Field & Staff and Companies, 9 Reg't Ill Inf]
May 30 Corinth having been evacuated last night the 9 Regt in complience (sic) with orders marched toward the left of our lines. The whole division being attached to Popes Army Corps marched out 7 miles and bivouacked for the night.
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