We were relieved from picket this morning. It looks pretty
bad in walking the streets of Vicksburg to see the destruction caused by our
shells. Many buildings are completely demolished, while others have great holes
made in their walls — I counted as high as ten holes in a wall. I noticed a
shell lying in the bottom of a cistern, whose fuse must have been put out when
it struck the water and so it only knocked a hole in the wall, but it drained
the water out of the cistern.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 135-6
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