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Page 19 13 miles above Mobile on the Alabama River we got to Mobile January the 20.1864 we martched out 6 miles southweste of Mobile campte on the easte side of the Dog River nest the Olde Dog River Factory the factory had bin a place of grate importance befour the war but it got burned abought the commencement of the war and has all gone to rack our men has builte a still near the olde factory we wair campte at the factory from the 20 of January till the 6 of Febuary 1864 We got order to Meredian Mississippi we taken the cars at Mobile the 6 of Febuary 1864 distance from Mobile to Meredian Mississippi 135 miles we got to Meredian 7 of Febuary 1864.
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The Dog River Factory, aka Camp Goode
Belonged to Col. Garland Goode
believe it was 5 miles SW of Mobile

There must have been a steamboat landing at the factory where a number of regimental history mention boarding a steamer.

Transported by steamboat from Tuscaloosa to Mobile when unit was organized and quartered in Hitchcock's Cotton Warehouse on Water Street. Immediately moved 14.5 miles southwest of Mobile to Hall's Turpentine Still. Remained there until Monday, 3 March 1862 when the unit marched 15 miles to Dog River Factory and boarded the Steamer Dorrance for Ft. Gaines on Dauphin Island.
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