We have plenty of wood now. At about 2 o'clock this
afternoon a brisk fire opened between our men and the rebels. We have not yet
heard what was the cause of it.1 A scouting party seventeen miles
out from the city had a skirmish with the rebel cavalry, but there were no
losses outside of several horses. A report came into camp that Port Hudson has
been taken by our forces.
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1 This was down at Vicksburg, where there was
some heavy cannonading between our gunboats and the Confederate batteries. — A.
G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 97
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