A high wind today ended in rain tonight. Colonel Chambers of
the Sixteenth Iowa, who has been commanding our brigade, left for Vicksburg
this morning to obtain release from this command in order to return to the
regular army. The boys of the brigade are glad to see him leave. Colonel Hall
takes charge again of our brigade. I went on brigade guard tonight. Our
countersign is “Vicksburg.”
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 127
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