Monday, 9th–We were relieved from picket at 9 o’clock this morning. The Thirteenth Iowa had battalion drill this afternoon. Hear some heavy cannonading in the direction of Vicksburg.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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