Left Milliken's Bend
and had one of the hardest marches on account of heat we have ever had. The
distance was only twelve miles, yet it was across a country devoid of trees,
and in the middle of the day the heat was dreadful; water scarce—more
straggling than ever before, except on one occasion. Reached Richmond, La.,
about dark. I was posted at the entrance of the town to post the men, as they
came straggling in, where the camp was.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 13
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