I went on picket today. The weather is quite warm.
Vicksburg, on the east bank of the Mississippi, is built on very high ground.
It is quite rough and rolling here. There are some nice buildings here — a very
fine court house, six good church buildings and a number of very nice
dwellings, besides some large warehouses and stores. During the siege the
houses were all more or less damaged, there being scarcely a single building
that was not in some way injured. There are very few of the old citizens living
here at present, as the military rule of the Union army is not good for their
peace of mind.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 164
No comments:
Post a Comment