We arrived at the
Tallahatchie Bottoms about noon. Bissell's engineer regiment is encamped here.
It has just finished the railroad bridge over the river and the cars now pass
on to Oxford in advance. There was a clearing with two redoubts which we passed
before entering the woody bottoms of the Tallahatchie. The teams were halted
and we slung our knapsacks and carried them over the marshy bottoms. We had
advanced but a short distance when the formidable earthworks which the Rebs had
erected, loomed up before our eyes. When we once more struck terra firma we were
halted, unslung our knaps, and when the teams came up, packed them on the
wagons. I started on and entered the camp of the 12th Ind. Volunteers. Found
the old members of Co. E. divided among two companies—F and I, both gotten up
at Warsaw. We arrived at Abbyville in the middle of the forenoon. The country
between LaGrange and Abbyville is rough and hilly.
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. 18-9
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