The news came in
this morning that Holly Springs was entered at daylight and captured. The
Rebels took over two hundred thousand dollars and burned the depot with all the stores
and the arsenal we had fitted up for a hospital. After dinner we were set to work
building breastworks of cotton, having captured one thousand bales from the C.
S. A... When we first came here the regiment was scattered along the railroad,
one company in a place extending nearly to Oxford. Companies G and K were kept
here, this being the headquarters of Regiment 1, Norton commanding the Post.
Two companies below were sent up, and by night we had a complete breastwork of
cotton bales, regular old hickory style.
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. 19-20
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