Made about three miles today; the transports of the whole division are close together, and at times have to help pull each other around the bends in the bayou. The patience of pilots and engineers is sorely tried. It is certainly a tortuous way, and was it not that the country is pretty well overflowed the Rebs could harass us terribly, while we could do them but little harm.
SOURCE: Joseph Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton, p. 10
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