We stayed in camp all day, much to the enjoyment of the
boys. Sergeant Hoover and I got a horse and mule, and rode down to Chickasaw
Bayou, where the supplies for our army around Vicksburg are received. I have
complained a little of being over-marched, but the trotting of my mule to-day
was the hardest exercise I have had for some time.
If our poor foes in Vicksburg could see our piles of
provisions on the river landing, they might hunger for defeat. Around Vicksburg
the country is quite hilly and broken, with narrow ridges, between which are
deep ravines. These ridges are occupied by the opposing forces at irregular
distances. At some points the lines of the Union and Confederate armies are but
fifty yards apart.
SOURCE: Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd, A Soldier's Story
of the Siege of Vicksburg, p. 40
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