We continued our journey again at daylight and by evening
reached a point about ten miles above Vicksburg, where we drove our fleet
ashore and remained on the boats all night. Fully seventy-five boats loaded
with troops are assembled here, while the fleet of gunboats is lying in the
river two miles below us. The country is very low here, the land on either side
of the river being about twenty feet below the water in the river, which is
kept within its banks by levees. The river is rising, and about three miles
below us the levee on the Louisiana side has broken, and the land is being
flooded.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 96
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