Another cold, wet day. We completed loading our regimental
supplies about noon, and at 4 o'clock started for Vicksburg. We tied up for the
night about forty miles below Memphis. The boats are overcrowded, and because
of the cold weather there is much suffering.1
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1 Starting on this trip ended seventy-nine days
of campaigning; in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee. For suffering
from exposure, part of the time no tents at night, nearly all the time on half
rations or less, for forty-nine days no change of clothing, and more than sixty
cloudy days with rain or snow, this campaign proved to be one of the most
laborious campaigns during our four years' service. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 95
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