This is a beautiful
day. I am quite stiff and sore from the effects of my walk. There was a detail
from the sixth division this morning, mounted on mules and sent out in the
northwestern direction upon a scout. Corp. Si. Livingston and Privates Briton
and Schultz represented Co. K, 17th Ill. They went about sixteen miles to a little
town called Richmond, where they found a detachment of the enemy, but owing to
a large bayou, our boys could not get at them, and had to leave them in
possession of the place. We heard heavy cannonading this morning. The Rebs had
undertaken to cross with about five hundred head of cattle, but slipped up on
it, and they fell into our hands.
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.
34-5
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