Saturday, 26th–The Eleventh and the Fifteenth Iowa returned from Redstone, and they report that there was no sign of the rebels out there. The rebels being out there was all a humbug. The regiments were sent out there so that the officers in town could have a spree on Christmas.[1]
[1] Many thought at the time that it was a put-up job to give the boys a march–and I still believe it.—A. G. D.