It cleared off this morning and we left Richmond at 10
o'clock, marched nine miles and went into camp on Holmes's plantation, about
eight miles from the Mississippi and due west from Vicksburg. We took
possession of all the vacant houses and sheds on the plantation. The roads are
very muddy and many of the trains got stalled. Some of the wagons loaded with
ammunition sank down to the axles and much time and labor were consumed in
getting them out. There was some fighting at Grand Gulf today.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 111-2
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