A work train came in from Corinth today, and troops are
coming in from the front. It is said they are bound for Memphis where they will
take transports down the river, to go into camp just above Vicksburg. The
Fifteenth Iowa left camp here and took up quarters down in Lafayette.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 91
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