This is a beautiful
day. I left for home on my thirty-day furlough. I embarked with the Fifteenth
Iowa and the Thirty-second Illinois, on board the “Olive Branch.” We left for
Cairo, Illinois, at 3 p. m. We say adieu to thee, Vicksburg, the Gibraltar of
the West! We leave thee with some pleasant memories, notwithstanding the many
hardships we had to endure while with thee! Before we left Vicksburg the
railroad station caught fire and was completely consumed with two thousand
bushels of oats stored there.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 174
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