A despatch from the front informs us that General Grant has
taken the railroad bridge across the Big Black river in the rear of Vicksburg.
The troops also took some prisoners. The Eleventh Iowa, accompanied by a
gunboat, went on a scout up the Big Black river to destroy a bridge which the rebels
had built in the last few days. This river empties into the Mississippi a short
distance above our camp.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 116
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