[From the diary of Francis G. Hale, 34th Ohio Zouaves]

News came today that
the boys was coming back
that they had advanced
to little mud creek
and was com ing back
in a fiew days but
I do not [k]now
how soone it will be for
we never be lieve any
thing that we hear
un less it comes from
a re li a ble sorse they
are all well as far as
i can learn they got
som horses but not
many and some sheepe
a cattle they did not see
any of the enimy I
believe nor did not
have any skirmish

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