We lay over here below Haines's Bluff all day, the boys
being very tired after their long march. We ran out of provisions last night
and could not draw any today. Some of the boys went out into the country to see
what they could forage. We heard the roar of cannon at Vicksburg all day.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 119
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