Weather very warm.
Men engaged in building roads through the ravines to connect the different
camps. Our rations are now all right, getting them by steamer from the North to
Yazoo River, and then teaming them across Chickasaw Bayou to our camps. Men in
good spirits and prefer the spade and pick to charging breastworks.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 17
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