General Blair's Division, composed of Ohio and Illinois
troops, went by today on their way to Grand Gulf. All day teams were returning
to the river landing for provisions for the army at Grand Gulf. We received
orders to send all the sick back to the hospital at Memphis, and prepare to
march. Our regiment has battalion drill twice a day now.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 113-4
