Thursday, 12th–The farmers living about here are cutting their wheat; some have already begun stacking. Wheat here is good, with some especially fine fields, but some fields were entirely destroyed during the siege of Corinth. The corn is not as good on account of the cold, wet spring.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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