News came that General Sherman has again made an attack on
Haines's Bluff, the same as last fall when the plan failed because General
Grant failed to co-operate with him. The plan is to be tried again this spring.
A large ammunition train passed through here for Carthage, Louisiana. General
Crocker left the command of our brigade, to take command of the Seventh
Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps. The boys are all sorry to see him
leave.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 112
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