I was on fatigue duty down in town today, helping to
dismount the guns and load them with the ammunition upon the cars to be shipped
to Corinth. We are preparing to leave Iuka as soon as possible, but it is slow
work, as the railroad is in bad shape, and there is only one train a day.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 71
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