It is very pleasant
after four or five days of quite warm weather. I was on picket again, the first
time for a week. Two brigades of General Crocker's Division arrived from
Natchez to reinforce the troops here at Vicksburg. Two negroes entering an old
vacant Confederate magazine today were blown to pieces. They were smoking and
it is supposed that the loose powder on the floor in some way became ignited.
The explosion was heard for miles around. So much again for the filthy habit of
smoking.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 152
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