Tuesday, March 31, 1863

Around noon today, the J.C. Snow reached Milliken's Bend, about twenty miles above Vicksburg, on the Louisiana side.  The 130th Illinois Infantry went into camp.  They selected a site near the levee that ran all along the lowlands next to the river.  This levee had been built to protect the adjacent plantations in times of high water.  In many places these levees were broken, and the lowlands were flooded.  With the addition of the flood waters, the bayous and lagoons became large lakes.