We loaded up our baggage and started at 8 o'clock to join
our regiment and brigade in camp on the Big Black river, about ten miles
distant. We found our command cutting away the trees which were cut down to
keep General Johnston from coming in our rear after Vicksburg should surrender.1
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1 It was reported that Pemberton had raised the
white flag, asking for terms of surrender. This being the case, our forces were
set to work clearing the road for our artillery; for we understood that upon
the surrender of Vicksburg, we were to pursue Johnston's army.—A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 125
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