We are once more getting settled in camp. Our duties are not
as laborious as they were at Bolivar and Iuka. We have begun the building of
forts and rifle-pits, close in, all around Corinth, so that a small force can
hold the place. We are pulling down some of the vacant houses to make room for
fortifications. But the fortifications will not be on as grand a scale as those
built here during the summer. They will be smaller, too, than the
fortifications which protected us during the battle here.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 76
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