It cleared off this
morning and it got quite cool. I was at my post this morning, standing in water
a foot deep. When our relief came they had to go back almost to town before they
could cross the swollen creek to reach our post. The "Veteran"
excitement was raging when we got back to camp. This afternoon we had a meeting
of our regiment, when Major Foster made a speech on the subject of
re-enlisting, and I re-enlisted. A large number in our brigade and throughout
the Seventeenth Army Corps have re-enlisted. Abraham Brown of our company died
yesterday, here in the Vicksburg hospital. He was a good man.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 160
