Today we enjoyed the first warm, clear day for more than two
weeks, the snow having entirely disappeared. Our fleet continued all day
without a stop. We met the White river expedition returning to Memphis from
Napoleon, Arkansas. We tied up for the night about one hundred miles above
Vicksburg.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 96
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