A report came to camp that the forces under Sherman made an
unsuccessful attack upon Vicksburg.2 We are shut out of
communications now as well as of provisions; we have had no mail for a month.
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2 They failed because of the strong
fortifications and the fact that Grant failed to make his attack in the rear of
Vicksburg at the same time, as planned. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 91
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