Rienzi. Was another
repetition of that a week ago only on a little larger scale. The horses were
harnessed at 1 A. M. and we went out on the Ripley road three quarters of a
mile, laid there half an hour waiting for the enemy, then filed left on our
drilling ground, drilled half an hour, then came home and unharnessed. Received
new gun carriages and caissons in the afternoon. Report of another great battle
at Iuka in which 1000 of our men were killed in twenty-five minutes. Colonel
Murphy of the 8th put under arrest for withdrawing his men. Stood guard duty.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 6-7
