Friday, 21st–We packed our knapsacks and started at 10 o’clock for the landing two miles above Vicksburg and a mile below our camp. Our regiment with the Thirteenth went on board the “Fanny Bell,” and at dark started up the river.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.

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