We started again this morning moved up about 2 miles. We stopped and stacked arms and carried rails ¾ of a mile. We tore down 3 log houses to biuld bridges while others were using axes. By this means we made some two miles of solid bridge and got our teams and artilery over the worst slough. We started again and went about six miles and went into camp.In many places "corduroy" roads were made. A "corduroy" road was made by putting down many logs side by side and as close together as possible.
They made magnificent camp fires with the pine knots that abounded everywhere, and as a result of burning that kind of fuel their faces were covered with soot, smoke and grime.
As we passed through the continuous pine forests they came upon "turpentine orchards." Cup-shaped notches had been chopped in the trunks of the larger trees and these had filled with resin. One night someone set fire to one resin-filled tree cup and the flames extended to others trees, and soon the fire spread to the entire forest. They left these in their rear as they marched to a camp further on, far away from the forest fire.
