Shell burst just over the roof this morning. Pieces tore
through both floors down into the dining-room. The entire ceiling of that room
fell in a mass. We had just left it. Every piece of crockery on the table was
smashed up. The “Daily Citizen” to-day is a foot and a half long and six inches
wide. It has a long letter from a Federal officer, P. P. Hill, who was on the
gun-boat Cincinnati, that was sunk May 27th. Says it was found in his
floating trunk. The editorial says, “The utmost confidence is felt that we can
maintain our position until succor comes from outside. The undaunted Johnston
is at hand.”
SOURCE: George W. Cable, “A Woman's Diary Of The Siege Of
Vicksburg”, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXX, No.
5, September 1885, p. 772
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