April 8th. This morning nearly all the brigade was detailed on fatigue duty to build docks, bridges and roads; thousands of men are at work on the docks, as no artillery or stores can be landed until this is done. I rode over the country in the afternoon, finding it barren and deserted; saw two houses which were occupied by women only. Not a man here outside of our own army.
Barren and deserted country.–Diary of Josiah Marshall Favill.
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