The reports of April 12, 1864 list the total strength of the 130th Illinois Infantry Regiment as just 3 officers and 65 men.
(Editor's Note: I am assuming William Fleming was one of those 65 men. He was not listed with the other 130th Illinois Infantry soldiers at the prison camp in Tyler, Texas.)
On the 12th of April there was heavy cannonading up the river. General Gordon, with 4,500 men, had gone in that direction.
Several thousand reinforcements came in to camp today by transports on the river.
