Thursday, 17th.—Setting out from Raid Hill early in the. morning, our battalion soon caught up with the rear of the wagon train.
The road, which was already bad enough, was made still worse by its raining that day. Therefore the train moved very slowly, and “bringing up the rear” was quite an unpleasant job as well as a slow one. We camped for the night about where the head of the columns had bivouacked the night previous, only six miles from Bald Hill.
