Started at four a.
m. Reached Raymond by ten o'clock. The churches
were full of the wounded rebels and our men, for there had been quite a fight
here, as well as at Port Gibson. We had cleaned the rebels out and our men were
in the best of spirits. While resting here, heard firing in the distance.
Started at quick time; men were drawn up in line of battle about five miles
from Raymond, across a road, but the enemy had gone around us. Orders came to
move forward in a hurry. Met some brigades resting on the road, but General
Wilson of Grant's staff hurried us forward across fields and arrived at
Champion's Hill just as the enemy fled. We were pushed forward to the front and
slept on the field of battle. Dead rebels and Union soldiers were lying all
around us. The enemy had fled across the Big Black River. Our victory had been
complete, captured over two thousand men, seventeen pieces of artillery and a
number of battle flags. Marched twenty-five miles today.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 14
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