We packed up twice
to change our camp today, but the order was countermanded each time. The
arsenal is a very extensive building and the rebels turned out one hundred
small arms per day. We are preparing it for an extensive hospital. Quartered
here again tonight. I went up to the depot and while there met old Captain
Backman, of Co. C, 12th Ind. Reg. He is now sutler in the same regiment, which
is located but a few miles below here doing picket duty on the railroad.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p. 18
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