A foraging party
went out this morning. One of our boys killed five hogs and thirteen chickens,
and found two government wagons and two barrels of molasses that the Rebs had
taken out from Holly Springs and hidden. At 3 o'clock we had orders to move in
twenty minutes for Moscow, a small town ten miles west of LaGrange on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad. We marched to the opposite side of Coldwater
and camped for the night. Our brigade was in advance of the division and our
regiment in advance of the brigade.
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.
23-4
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