Friday, 15th—News came again that Richmond has been taken, and that all of General Lee’s supplies are cut off. The Third Brigade of General Blair’s Division landed at this place today and went into bivouac. A gunboat came up the river from Port Hudson. Reports are coming in that General Grant is routing the rebels wherever he comes upon them in force. There are some prisoners and wounded being brought in from the front. The wounded are taken to the hospital and the prisoners to the North.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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