Fighting is still going on and our guns around Vicksburg
seem to be making a new onslaught today. Our men blew up another rebel fort,
but did not attempt to rush in, since the guns from the other forts are so
arranged as to defend any other point along the fortifications. Everything on
the outer lines has been quiet. I came in from picket this morning. The boys of
my company are all in fine spirits, and although the blackberries are getting
scarce, peaches and apples, which are plentiful around here, will soon be ripe.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s
Civil War Diary, p. 124-5
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