The Eleventh Iowa received new guns, the Enfield rifle, and
everyone is pleased with the exchange. Receiving orders to move camp, we struck
our tents at 3 o'clock p. m. and moved two miles and went into camp in a
cottonfield close by the levee just above the town of Lake Providence. On
account of the flooding waters we had to travel a distance of four miles to
reach the point. General Logan's Division moved up the river about four miles.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 106
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