The Fourth Iowa Cavalry passed here this morning. It is a
fine regiment of horse. Four hundred and forty-four rebel prisoners captured at
Grand Gulf were taken by here this morning to be sent to our prisons in the
North; they are a hard-looking set of men. News came today that our men have
taken Grand Gulf with two thousand prisoners. If this is true it gives us a
road to Vicksburg over high ground, which means the fall of Vicksburg.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 113
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