Miss. River May 6" 1864 
Arrived at mouth of White river at 8 A.M. one and a half miles below there is a post of Negroes - quite a village of huts has sprung up within the last 9 months. and they have a gunboat to protect them. Arrived at vicksburg at 12 P.M. 
Saturday 7" 
Left Vicksburg at 11 A.M. passed Grand Gulf at 7 P.M. Everything looked nearly as it did Apr. 30" '63. 
Sunday 8"
 Arrived at Natchez at 11 last night - at Batonrouge at 10 A.M. at New Orleans 9 P.M. have traveled as a Reg't 5,500 miles since Mar. 5" "64. 
Camp Buffalo. Monday 9"
 Went into camp two miles below Carrolton in an open field. Drew tents &c.
 Tuesday 10"
 News reaches us that the great struggle has commenced in the East. Grants army is moving on Richmond, and driving Lee before him. Bloody work may be looked for. Wherever Grant fights men will get badly hurt.
