Four loads of sanitary goods from Iowa were landed today for
the Eleventh Iowa. Colonel Hall arrived this morning from home and the boys
were glad to see him. One year ago today he commanded the Eleventh Iowa at the
battle of Shiloh. The boys are all in fine spirits. The Sixteenth Iowa received
their pay today. It is reported that our cutting of the levee at Lake
Providence will prove of no avail, as the channel of the Tensas river is so
narrow, and it is impossible to cut out the big overhanging trees, so as to
make it wide enough for a fleet to pass through. The project will have to be
given up as impracticable.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 108
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