were many & broad as best we could.
Some of my little Dutchmen were
engulped in vain attempts to jump
them and nothing seen of them till
we reached camp. We pushed after
them at a rapid rate for a mile or
two & then halted in a big field, where
as it was now growing dark, we had
the pleasure of being fired into by
the 1st brig. skirmishers, who wounded
one man. Then we regained the road
& went back a mile into camp. I spent
the night on picket drying myself.
The next day we struck the Charleston &
Savannah R.R. which crosses the river
some 10 or 12 miles above the city. We
tore up the track & burnt a very long
trestle work over a swamp, where, if
they had had the sense to obstruct the
road & plant some artillery they could
have bothered us not a little. Indeed
they could have caused us much
trouble & delay had they burnt bridges
& felled trees across the road along
our whole course, but they were either
afraid or very stupid. That night
we encamped in front of their line