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[1863] April 17th The 6th Iowa with the exceptions of H. and B. left Grand Junction in Company with the 103rd Ill, 99th Ind, and 46th Ohio Regts and 6 pieces of artillery. We took the cars and left the Junction about noon taking the Holly Spring road. Our teams were all left at Camp our only chance for provisions were what we carried in haversacks or captured on the road. we knew nothing of our destination only that we would be gone several days and that we would have hard marching and perhaps hard fighting before we got back to Camp. Gen [H S?] Smith commanded the expidition. The train halted at Davisses mills in order to take on the 40th Ill. as they constituted apart of our force with the exception of our Company left in charge of the Camp. the Camp was afterwards moved to the Junction. Owing to the bad condition of the road the cars only took us 23 miles that afternoon then in consequence of the bridges from over Cold water and other branches being swept away by high water. the idea of going farther by rail way was abandoned
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[1863] April 17th The 6th Iowa with the exceptions of H. and B. left Grand Junction in Company with the 103rd Ill, 99th Ind, and 46th Ohio Regts and 6 pieces of artillery. We took the cars and left the Junction about noon taking the Holly Spring road. Our teams were all left at Camp our only chance for provisions were what we carried in haversacks or captured on the road. we knew nothing of our destination only that we would be gone several days and that we would have hard marching and perhaps hard fighting before we got back to Camp. Gen [H S?] Smith commanded the expidition. The train halted at Davisses mills in order to take on the 40th Ill. as they constituted apart of our force with the exception of our Company left in charge of the Camp. the Camp was afterwards moved to the Junction. Owing to the bad condition of the road the cars only took us 23 miles that afternoon then in consequence of the bridges from over Cold water and other branches being swept away by high water. the idea of going farther by rail way was abandoned
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