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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
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August 17
Our corps began the march yesterday late in the afternoon. [sentence underlined] We reached Charles City C. H. after dark. Gen. Slocum, Rodgers, + myself occupied a room in one of the buildings. The rest of the staff elsewhere.
R. woke me up in the middle of the night to carry orders. Off at 4 1/2 this morning. [two sentences underlined] Hard march -- crossed Chickahominy late in the afternoon on the longest and finest Ponton bridge ever constructed in America. Length 2200 feet, number of pontons 98. Encamped for the night near the bridge.