Meadow Bluff
To day the roads are in a horrible condition.
To my surprise & astonishment Loring's five
regiments marched all day yesterday in the
rain & mud & arrived very near this point
this evening. No news from Gen. Lee.
Mrs. Floyd arrived here this morning.
William Wing Loring, 1818-1886, known as Old Blizzards, lost an arm at Chapultepec in the Mexican War. Later disagreed with Stonewall Jackson over the conduct of the war, was relieved from his post and sent successively to a command in Southwestern Virginia, the Army of the Mississippi, and the Army of the Tennessee. After the war entered in the service of the Khedive of Egypt.
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