...ninth, marched two miles, and had to reconnoitre the surrounding country and flank a small body of the enemy hovering round our front; arrived in camp at six o'clock P. M. On the tenth, we struck the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, destroyed and burned it up, near the bridge over the Savannah River, and encamped four and a half miles from Savannah. December eleventh, took position, but were withdrawn ...