The weather is quite warm and pleasant. A large fleet of
transports arrived at Clifton this morning, loaded with troops and supplies,
the wagons and teams of the Seventeenth Corps being on board. We also received
a large mail.
News came that General Grant had defeated the rebels in a
two days' battle before Richmond, though he lost about twenty thousand in
killed and wounded. The news is almost too good to believe. All is quiet here
in the West. We are still herding cattle, but think we shall soon be relieved.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 187-8
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