Our brigade went
into Vicksburg this afternoon at 2 o'clock to be in the review, together with
the entire army at this place. We were reviewed by Major General U. S. Grant.
The report in camp is that General Grant has been ordered by the War Department
to report at Louisville, Kentucky. All are sorry to see him leave. Just after
dark, the Eleventh Iowa was ordered out on picket, it being expected that the
rebel cavalry would make a dash into Vicksburg in the morning.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 146
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