The weather is
getting quite cool, particularly the nights, and a little fire in our tents in
the evening makes it quite comfortable and homelike. It is different on picket,
where no fires are allowed, except on the reserves’ posts. Troops are leaving
Vicksburg nearly every day, going to northern Mississippi and western Tennessee
to occupy garrisons made vacant by General Sherman's men going to the relief of
the army cooped up in Chattanooga.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 149
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