I was detailed on a foraging party today. There were two
hundred men and one hundred wagons, accompanied by a squad of cavalry as a
picket guard. We went up the Yazoo river bottoms about five miles and loaded
our wagons with green corn, which we found in abundance. It was very hot, and
the work was strenuous, besides its being on the Lord's Day — but such is the
life of a soldier.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 134
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