Monday, August 6, 2012

1862 August 6 Camp Price[?]

[from the diary of William Cox Holmes of the 1st Mississippi Battalion of Sharpshooters]

Sent to Baton
Rouge
Aug 6 1862

very unexpectedly to us,while in
our delightful encampment, orders
came to go to Baton Rouge to help
the balance of the division take the
place.  On the 6th of August, we
started for Vicksburg & now came
some pretty hard soldiering.  We did
not take tents or any thing else
much so we had a most incon-
vient time of it.  The result of
the whole trip was that we occupi
-ed the enemy's for some time
& during the time we fortified
Port Hudson above it is to be hope
will prevent the further naviga
-tionof the Miss.  But suddenly
here was all my happy expec-
tations cut short & I could
neither do or think of my in
-tentions, while at Camp Price
but so it is with the soldier
through the whole of his life.

MSS  38-472

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