Rained a good deal
last night. We were up early. Our regiment was rear guard to the wagon train
today. It cleared off early and was quite cool, making a fine day for marching.
We carried our knapsacks as on the previous day, and marched about eight miles.
Fine country between Coldwater and Moscow, that is for Mississippi. Most
plantations have fine mansions. There have been but few troops over this road,
consequently cattle and hogs are quite abundant. Our boys drove in about sixty hogs
and most of them are fine, fat ones. When they came into camp the boys pitched
in, each man for himself, and our mess got half a hog.
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. 24
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