Warm and raining. We
were astir early, cooked our breakfasts, filled our haversacks with meat and
what little bread we had, and fell in about 7 o'clock. It began to rain and we
had gone but a mile or two when we were wet through. We secured two ox teams,
one of six oxen, and one of four, which hauled our knapsacks. The 12th Ind. is
still camped on the Tallahatchie. Saw Lieut. E. Webster and Tom Anderson, they
are living on quarter rations. Capt. Williams, now Colonel of the regiment, was
at Holly Springs at the time it was captured and he was taken for the third
time. We marched to the Yazoo Bottoms and camped on the opposite side. It
rained and we were completely soaked. The ground was muddy and I looked around,
found a stack of corn, dug down to the dry stalks, husked out a lot and made a
bed for myself. We are, within seven miles of Holly Springs.
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. 22
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