The first news that
greeted us this morning was marching orders. After breakfast we drew four days'
rations, two of them cooked, put them in our haversacks, and were ready to
march aboard the boats. About 2 o'clock the regiment was formed and we marched
aboard the "Crescent City" and the "Ella," escorted by a
gunboat, or Ram No. 2. We started in the fore part of the night. Abe and I
found a place on the lower deck on the top of a wood pile, and it is well we did,
for it rained nearly all night.
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, pp.
35-6
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