The Thirty-fifth Iowa received marching orders. A report is
that General Burnside with eight thousand troops went on an expedition up the
Yazoo river today. Cannonading has been heard on all sides all day. News came
that General Banks has Port Hudson surrounded and is now besieging the place.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 121
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