3rd. After breakfast and feeding, moved to Lenoir. Stopped two hours in the shade near the big springs. Several Union men from over the river, Blount County, anxious for us to cross over. Camped in the woods on a high bank of river. Many girls out to see us. Several came up and took coffee [...]
Thursday, 3d–The boats arrived this morning and we embarked immediately, pushing out at 10 o’clock for Vicksburg. The Eleventh and the Sixteenth Iowa were on board the “Samuel Gotz.” We were crowded on the boat, and the heat of the sun was frightful. We reached Vicksburg at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and disembarking, marched [...]
SEPTEMBER 3d.—Night before last the heavens were illuminated, it is said, by the terrific bombardment of the batteries and forts in the vicinity of Charleston, and earth and sea trembled with the mighty vibrations. Yet no material injury was done our works, and there were not more than a dozen casualties. On the side of [...]