The regiment went ashore and marched over streets that were very muddy in places from recent rain.
Charles Johnson described their first day in Memphis like this:
Now and then a house was passed, from which welcome was extended by a waving handkerchief in the hands of a woman. Most of the female sex, however, seemed ready to extend anything but a welcome to the "hordes from the North." Camp was formed on the outskirts of the city in a beautiful beech grove that was in every way pleasantly located. Here tents were put up, huts built by some, and about two weeks of beautiful November weather spent most pleasantly.
