{"id":889,"date":"2013-05-25T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:12:01","slug":"may-25-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/25\/may-25-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 25, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"24\"<\/a>Monday.\u00a0 Turned out at 4 o\u2019clock & got breakfast\u2014the orders being for our Reg. to take the advance & start at 5.\u00a0 Only four passes to be given to a Company to ride on the teams.\u00a0 We marched through Franklin without stopping there, & halted at one o\u2019clock under some wide-spreading oaks 3 miles below Franklin.\u00a0 The forenoon was very hot, & the road dusty.\u00a0 Have had but 3 rests in the 15 miles.\u00a0 Many men fell out & I for one did not wonder at it.\u00a0 I was tired myself, & gladly heard the word \u201chalt.\u201d\u00a0 Started again at 3 & marched through Centreville, & to a fine smooth field a mile beyond (3 miles from last halting place) where we halted for the night.\u00a0 Having two hours of daylight, many of the officers & men took a good wash in the bayou.\u00a0 Had fresh beef & pork for supper, which was cooked & eaten in good season.\u00a0 We are camping 6 miles from Franklin, & about 22 from Brashear, which place we expect to reach by Wednesday noon.\u00a0 As I write this (7 o\u2019clock) the 41st<\/sup> have just dashed by towards Centreville, & the report is that the train has been fired on this side of Franklin, & several of our men killed.\u00a0 This is the first sign of molestation we have had since we started.\u00a0 I had hardly written the above when the \u201clong roll\u201d was heard, & in a few minutes our\u00a0 Reg. was in line & advanced into a cornfield on the other side of the road, & took position in line of battle, with a Company of the 41sat on our left.\u00a0 We (our Reg.) soon deployed across the field, & lay there till about 10 \u00bd o\u2019clock when the train having started we assembled by companies by the side of the road, where we lay down & waited till all the teams, negro carts & all had gone by.\u00a0 It was not 12 \u00bd o\u2019clock & we moved off in silence & at a quick pace.\u00a0 We kept on with but two or three rests till 4 \u00bd a.m. when we turned into a field about 10 miles from camp for a short rest.\u00a0 Our haversacks have been put on the teams with blankets, &c., so we had nothing to eat but two hard buscuits apiece that were served out.\u00a0 I ate mine & lay down on the grass 7 fell asleep at once.\u00a0 Many of the boys had thrown themselves down the moment after breaking ranks, & went to sleep without eating anything.\u00a0 We had marched all the way with hardly a drink of water, as the canteens were nearly all empty when we started, & we had no chance to fill them till we reached the stopping place.\u00a0 My canteen fortunately was nearly full, & though I did drink a drop myself, I was able to \u201cwet the whistles\u201d of several of the boys that suffered more than I did.\u00a0 At 7 \u00bd o\u2019clock we started again, & had a hot dusty march some 14 miles to Berwick City where we arrived at 1 \u00bd o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Thus we have made a march since yesterday morning of near 50 miles & many of the men are terribly foot-sore.\u00a0 I have blisters on each foot, but have stood the march as well as anybody in the Reg., I think.\u00a0 When within some 6 miles of Berwick it was reported that the rebels were in pursuit, & were but a short distance in our rear.\u00a0 Col. Morgan rode back & marched in the rear.\u00a0 There was a steamer with a couple of field pieces on board, that had come up opposite the place where we rested for breakfast, & kept along down the bayou, just opposite our rear, ready to treat the rebels to a dose of canister or shells as soon as they should appear.\u00a0 The road running close to the bayou, the boat was within hailing distance of us all the time.\u00a0 No shots were fired from her, however, & we kept on as fast as our poor weary limbs would let us, till we reached Berwick, bringing our immense train in safely & thus giving practical freedom to some 2,000 men, women & children whom the President\u2019s proclamation had made free in theory.\u00a0 What is to be done with them all passes my comprehension, but many of the men will undoubtedly go into the \u201cCorps de Afrique\u201d now organizing in this department.\u00a0 The distance we have marched in the last 5 \u00bd days is not far from 120 miles\u2014nearly half of which we have made in the last 36 hours.\u00a0 Since we left Brashear City on the 12th<\/sup> of April, we have marched not far from 220 miles, all of which I have made afoot, except about 25 miles, tho\u2019 most of the officers have ridden more than half the time, 7 some of them nearly all till yesterday.\u00a0 Slept on the short, (Berwick side) in front of the Genl. Hospital.<\/p>\n

Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday.\u00a0 Turned out at 4 o\u2019clock & got breakfast\u2014the orders being for our Reg. to take the advance & start at 5.\u00a0 Only four passes to be given to a Company to ride on the teams.\u00a0 We marched through Franklin without stopping there, & halted at one o\u2019clock under some wide-spreading oaks 3 miles below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33,67,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc-manuscript-coll","7":"tag-22nd-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1848","9":"tag-capt-isaac-winslow-case","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}