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On the next day he marched steadily forward, passed some difficult country, and late in the day heard that Hiketas had just reached the little fortress and was encamping before it.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

The Union army was encamping a few miles from C——, in North Carolina.

From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins