The gentleman who took our cave came yesterday to invite us
to come to it, because, he said, “it's going to be very bad to-day.” I don't
know why he thought so. We went, and found his own and another family in it;
sat outside and watched the shells till we concluded the cellar was as good a
place as that hill-side. I fear the want of good food is breaking down H–––. I
know from my own feelings of weakness, but mine is not an American constitution
and has a recuperative power that his has not.
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. 773
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