October 23d. Left Auburn Mills at 7 A. M. to-day and marched towards Warrenton, bivouacking four miles north of it, at a place called Turkey Run bridge; weather very fine, no enemy in sight. Remained in this position until November 7th; are laying the railroad, rebuilding bridges, putting up telegraph wires, etc.
“No enemy in sight.”–Diary of Josiah Marshall Favill (as recorded by one of his clerks).
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