We received orders to be ready to march at a moment's
warning. Getting the orders we started about 10 o'clock at night for
Messenger's ford on the lower Big Black river, about four miles from our
bivouac, and reached the ford at midnight. We are to stop Johnston from
crossing the river, as it is thought he is making an effort to cross at the
ford to strike Sherman's right flank.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 125
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