We started at 6 o’clock this morning and arrived in Oxford
at about 10. We were inspected by General Grant, passing through the town by
platoon. We marched on eight miles out from town and went into camp along the
railroad. Grant has his headquarters in Oxford. It is a fine town, on high
ground and well built up with fine homes of the rich planters. A college is
located here, with good buildings.1 The surrounding plantations are
well fenced and have good buildings.
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1 Our diarist must have seen either the
University of Mississippi, opened in 1848, or Union Female College, a
Cumberland Presbyterian college, founded in 1854. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 87-8
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