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George C. Burmeister diary, 1863
1863-12-03
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Thursday 3. Messengers with dispatches arrived early this morning stating that the rebels are moving towards us and would certainly make an attack here sometime today, all the troops were marched into the fort, everybody put himself into fighting trim, ready at his post “to do or die”; our cavalry came dashing into our lines, as if the rebels were coming right after them. They reported the rebels only two miles from here still advancing towards us. We waited quite a while for the rebels to show themselves but we could see no sign of their coming. About noon a small pillar of smoke was seen ascending in the vicinity of the Tuscumbia Bridge, and the supposition was that the rebels had fired it and were destroying the road there. Col. Geddes ordered Lt Kern, to throw a few shell over to it, the order was promptly obeyed. The smoke of the gun had scarcely cleared away, when a man appeared on the railroad in the direction of the smoke, waving a white flag The man proved to be a resident of this neighborhood, is in our army, he came pale and in haste, even without any covering on his head, and reported that there were no rebels in the vicin-
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Thursday 3. Messengers with dispatches arrived early this morning stating that the rebels are moving towards us and would certainly make an attack here sometime today, all the troops were marched into the fort, everybody put himself into fighting trim, ready at his post “to do or die”; our cavalry came dashing into our lines, as if the rebels were coming right after them. They reported the rebels only two miles from here still advancing towards us. We waited quite a while for the rebels to show themselves but we could see no sign of their coming. About noon a small pillar of smoke was seen ascending in the vicinity of the Tuscumbia Bridge, and the supposition was that the rebels had fired it and were destroying the road there. Col. Geddes ordered Lt Kern, to throw a few shell over to it, the order was promptly obeyed. The smoke of the gun had scarcely cleared away, when a man appeared on the railroad in the direction of the smoke, waving a white flag The man proved to be a resident of this neighborhood, is in our army, he came pale and in haste, even without any covering on his head, and reported that there were no rebels in the vicin-
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