February 7—We could not march yesterday, as the streams were too high from the recent rains and snow. We left to-day at 12 M., and got one day’s rations, hard enough to fell a bull. Marched on the railroad track all the afternoon. The main road was impassable. We got to Kinston at 4 in the afternoon, and made camp in a swamp, two and a half miles out of town. We had nothing to eat, but slept good for all that.
