April 28, 1864
---Slowed by the Ouachita River, the Confederates
under Gen. Sterling Price, in pursuit of Steele’s Federal troops, stop and
build a bridge to cross the river. The
day’s delay for the Confederates allows Steele to make a good head start on his
pursuers.
---Judith
White McGuire, in Richmond, writes a heartfelt and anxious, brief entry in her
journal:
28th.—The country seems to continue quiet, but the
campaign on the Rapidan is expected to open every day. Oh, how I dread it! The
morning is bright and beautiful; it seems hardly possible that such strife is
abroad in the land.
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