We struck our tents this morning at 5 o'clock and loaded
them on the boat and at 2 p. m. with knapsack on took up our march. By night we
were within one mile of Richmond, Louisiana, on the railroad running from
Vicksburg to Monroe, Louisiana, where we bivouacked for the night.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 111
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