It rained all day.
We are still on guard at the roundhouse. Troops are on the move, both up and
down the river as fast as the transports can carry them. New troops are to
garrison Vicksburg from now on. We are glad to leave the place, for we have
been in and around Vicksburg for more than fifteen months, and have seen some
very hard service in that time. But there is something about Vicksburg, the
Gibraltar of the West, that is really fascinating.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 173
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