I was on a detail of
two hundred men with one hundred teams to haul the commissary supplies and
ammunition from the transports to the storehouses and magazines constructed
near the new forts. It is heavy work, and as to handling the ammunition, quite
dangerous. General Grant has given orders that Vicksburg must be well fortified
and supplied with munitions and provisions, and that it must be held against
all possible attack, for it cost too much to obtain it, besides its being a
point of the greatest strategic importance.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p.
152
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