On guard. Stood
picket in a large cotton field which contains five or six hundred acres of
cotton, unpicked. I went back to the cane brake and got a fish pole. The guard
of our forage train came in contact with some cavalry in the vicinity of Old River
and routed them. In the course of the proceedings a Negro teamster hopped off
his horse, drew a revolver and shot a Reb who had just shot one of our
Captains, and took two prisoners.
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. 40
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