We came in from picket this morning and this afternoon moved
our regimental camp onto higher ground. Some of our boys are having a time with
the ague and fever. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments were ordered out to
Miller's Creek to guard a wagon train. The Thirty-fifth Iowa passed us on their
way to Vicksburg with five hundred prisoners from Johnston's army. Orders came
to prepare to march.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 130
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