I was on duty today with a foraging party of our division,
to help load the wagons with corn and cotton. We brought in seventy-five loads
of cotton worth about $40,000. At one plantation some negroes were out at work
picking cotton, while others were baling it in the gin houses, but we drove
into the houses and loaded up without asking for the privilege. The Sixth
Division almost every day brings in from seventy-five to one hundred loads of
corn or cotton. This part of the state is thickly settled and the settlements
are rich, there being a great deal of corn and cotton.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 86
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