Camp 103d Illinois
Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn.,
May 21, 1863.
I am still sitting on this Court Martial. We may finish up
this week. Everything is quiet here. To-day three or four regiments have gone
out with seven days' rations. All mounted. Rumors reach us daily that Grant is
in a critical situation; but I can't so see it. He has enough men to annihilate
in a field fight all the Rebels south of this line. We know that he has
captured Jackson, Miss., and has now turned his attention to Vicksburg.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 175
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