News came again that Richmond has been taken, and that all
of General Lee's supplies are cut off. The Third Brigade of General Blair's
Division landed at this place today and went into bivouac. A gunboat came up
the river from Port Hudson. Reports are coming in that General Grant is routing
the rebels wherever he comes upon them in force. There are some prisoners and
wounded being brought in from the front. The wounded are taken to the hospital
and the prisoners to the North.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 115
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