Weather warm. I was
on fatigue nearly all day, cutting and hauling wood for the company. We had
dress parade at 4 o'clock. Just at dusk the news came in that a guerilla band
was to attack us before morning. Fifty men from our regiment and forty-eight
from the 126th (which is here doing picket duty) were detailed to build
breastworks of cotton, four hundred bales of which lay near the depot. Col.
Norton and Major Bates did the engineering. After they had finished we lay
on our arms during the night, but no enemy made its appearance, and about 7
o'clock we were ordered back to camp.
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.
15-6
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