August 22d. Reveille at daybreak. Immediately after breakfast rations were issued, and the column stretched out en route for Newport News; the heat was oppressive, but the troops marched well; traveled over a very interesting country, with immense fields of corn, tall and beautiful, which undulated in the breeze like the waves of the ocean after a storm. The column halted six miles northwest of the town, well tired out, with a good day’s march.
“The column halted six miles northwest of the town, well tired out, with a good day’s march.” –Diary of Josiah Marshall Favill.
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