Started at 5 a. m.
Marched to "Hard Times" landing, on the Mississippi, where we
immediately embarked on board a transport and were ferried across to Grand
Gulf. Visited the fortifications, which were most extensive and almost
impregnable; our forces coming up in the rear forced the Rebs to evacuate them.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 14
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