October 5th. Weather improved and roads drying up. A division of the Sixth corps is to relieve us to-day, and we retire to the rear. There is considerable activity on the part of the enemy, and the signal officer reports long trains of wagons moving to the rear, which may indicate a fall campaign.
“A division of the Sixth corps is to relieve us to-day, and we retire to the rear.”–Diary of Josiah Marshall Favill.
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