We struck tents
early, packed our effects as snugly as possible, and as on the preceding
morning, shouldered our knaps. It rained during our entire march to Holly
Springs, the flower city of the South, and on our arrival there the flood gates
of heaven opened and the rain poured down on our defenseless heads in torrents.
We stood it about two hours before the Colonel culd secure quarters.
Three-fourths of a mile up the railroad track we found a very large rebel
arsenal, but were wet to the skin long before we reached this shelter. It
continued to rain all day without intermission.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p.
17-8
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