A large detail from our brigade began work on the canal from
the Mississippi river to Lake Providence. About three hundred negroes are
working on it. The canal is being cut twenty rods wide and when completed will
be three-quarters of a mile long with a fall of twenty feet. I paid out thirty
cents for some necessary articles, and also loaned thirty cents to Clark.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 100
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