Talk in camp today included the rumor that there would soon be consolidation of regiments. This is because many of the regiments, including Illinois 130th, are short of there normal complement of men due to injuries, illness, and deaths.
Captain Wilkins took a detail out aboard the steamer Diadem. they went up the White River, bound for De Valls Bluff, Arkansas. William Fleming was a part of that detail.
The Diadem was a sternwheel riverboat built at Monongahela, Pennsylvania, in 1860. It was 154 feet long by 33 feet wide, with a 4.9 foot depth of hold. The wood hull was build for the Pittsburgh-St. Louis trade. It served as a U.S. Army transport during the Civil War, and then sank in ice at St. Louis on January 13, 1866.
