Friday, 6th Pleasant. E.I.R.B. Gen. 11 and 23 inclusive. We marched to day at 4 P.M. and marched till 1 at night. We passed through Varona. Country is good. Saw some good young corn. Saw a cotton gin. The cotton fields are generally planted in corn.
[Record of Events, Field & Staff and Companies, 9 Reg't Ill Inf]
June 6 again moved south about 14 miles and went into camp near Boonville, Miss.
[orders and circulars Loren would, or should, have seen concurrent with his diary entries...]
Head Quarters 2nd Division June 6th 1862
Special Order No 54 } You will prepare your command to march with two days rations in haversacks & two in wagons, and ammunition and orders will be given at what time. The men on fatigue duty in the Bottom will be kept there until the work is finished.
By order Brig. Gen. Thos. A. Davies, Comdg 2d Div.
Brig Hd Qrs June 6th, 1862
It is contemplated by the above order that the rations will at once be put in haversacks & in the wagons for the 4 days. The ammunition train & our team with tools & forage be prepared so that the whole Brigade can be paraded & put upon the line of March in thirty minutes notice from these Head Quarters. The forage and rations left behind in Camp with a guard of convalescents if they are now a small detail from the Regiment will be made.
By order of Brig Gen Oglesby
No comments:
Post a Comment