Quite sore from
chopping and rolling cotton. Our Colonel, Amos Norton, is Commander of the
Post, and Rats is provost-marshal, Col. Smith commanding the regiment. Toward
dark a rumor was rapidly circulated through the camp that we were ordered to
Holly Springs, Miss. No one could tell where it started from, and consequently
no one credited it.
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. 16
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