of fortifications about near the 4th mile
post. We were without bedding & the
in the course of the night I awoke to
find myself soaked through with rain
and nearly frozen. That was a wretchedly
uncomfortable night, the worst of the
campaign; we were in a low swampy
hole & had little or nothing to eat. We
fully expected to assault in the
morning, but did not, and for a very
good reason, for along our whole
Corps’ front one of those nice rice
swamps extended with a creek 10 or 15
ft. deep, as we now know, running
in the middle of it. The next
morning, our reg’t went up to the
edge of it on a reconnaissance and
found it as I have said, only we
could not estimate the depth for
the opposite side was lined with
their works. To-day the mules & wagon
came up so that wer were happy
in dry clothes. The line ran thus
from the Savannah to the Ogeechee,
20th, 14th, 17th, 15th Corps. Rations were
now low, nothing but rice without
molasses and sometimes a little beef.