Wednesday, December 24, 1862

 

1862 Diary Entry

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Wed 24

    In motion again at 2 P.M. Fleet are more deployed that is scattered. A good precaution for with that arrangement a battery could play on but one boat at a time. Our brigade is in the rear today consisting Louisiana, Nebraska, and John J Roe. Gun boat Connestoga brings up the extreme rear. The expedition has been remarkable successful so far, not an accident of any serious extent has happened. A negro fell through the wheel house last night and was drowned. Passed the village of Greenville, a neat looking town but entirely deserted except by negros. Also the town of Columbia in Arkansas shore, old and shabby. The river is very winding in its course. In some places we look across a neck of land, one or two miles and see a part of fleet while we make a circuit of 10 or 15 to gain the same point. Banks everywhere are low, never more than 20 feet high. We are now passing through sugar growing region have been several sugar mills. The plantations all present the same picture, one extensive cornfiled. Tied up in Miliken's bend. Thus Christmas Eve is spent in 1862. Last year at Franklin Mo. Where will it be spent in 1863, at home, in the south, or in eternity?

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