[from the diary of Eugene M. Cox of the Albemarle Border Guards]
We were aroused this morning long before day to prepare to move from this place--cooked rations for three days--packed up, and were in readiness to march by sun up--but from some cause or other we did not get in motion until 8 o'clock--at that hour we bade farewell to "Dogwood Gap" to fall back in the direction of Lewisburg--This was done by order of Genl. Lee, commanding all of the Southern forces in western Virginia and it is doubtless very necessary to our safety for overwhelming forces of the enemy are around about us--provisions of all sorts are already very scarce--our hourses are getting weak for want of food, and but a little while longer would suffer to reduce their strength so that we would be obliged to lose all our teams and baggage--The two commands (Floyd's and Wise's) traveled very slowly and reached "Locust Lane" at about 5 P.M.--Here we encamped for the night---
MSS 38-211
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