Our brigade receiving orders, moved out about a mile and
again went into camp in a large hollow; we fixed up bunks and made a nice camp.
I was out last night again with a large detail from our brigade digging rifle
pits, working all night with rifle in one hand and pick in the other, digging
trenches to protect ourselves in the daytime. There was skirmishing and heavy
cannonading all day, and after night by their lighted fuses we sometimes could
see the shells from our mortar boats coming over the city and down to the
ground before they exploded.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 121
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