On this day, Pvt. Peter Perrine states the 16th Ohio boarded the steamboats, moored on the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas. He mentions they experienced a hard rain and snow. Pvt. Newt Gorsuch, Company B, tells us the snow was four inches deep, an unexpected sight that far south.

*Some information from Civil War Diaries and Selected Letters of Robert Newton Gorsuch, a private in Company B, 16th OVI, recently published in book form by Newt Gorsuch's great grandson, Everett Gorsuch Smith, Jr. The book is available for purchase from various Internet sources.