It is very warm and pleasant, and the mud is drying up fast.
We have no need for camp guards at this camp. We drew six days’ rations. The
Eleventh and Fifteenth Iowa Regiments received orders to move at once down the
river. We immediately struck our tents and by 10 o'clock p. m. were on board
the “Superior” with all the quartermaster's supplies, but the boat is to lie
here all night. Everything seems to point to a movement upon Vicksburg, and the
report is that the fleet, protected by the gunboats, will have to run the
blockade, while the troops will have to move by land through Louisiana and
cross the river below Vicksburg.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 106
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