We marched fifteen miles again today and went into camp for
the night. The Seventeenth Corps also corralled their wagon train, leaving two
brigades as a guard. There was some skirmishing in the front today, but we
learn that the rebels have left Meridian without making any resistance,
retiring to the south. Some of our men occupied the town late this evening.
Things are marching along fine.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 168
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