The churches are a
great resort for those who have no caves. People fancy they are not shelled so
much, and they are substantial and the pews good to sleep in. We had to leave
this house last night, they were shelling our quarter so heavily. The night
before, Martha forsook the cellar for a church. We went to
H—’s office, which was comparatively quiet last night. H— carried,the bank box;
I the case of matches; Martha the blankets and pillows, keeping an eye on the
shells. We slept on piles of old newspapers. In the streets the roar seems so
much more confusing, I feel sure I shall run right in the way of a shell. They
seem to have five diferent sounds from the second of throwing than to the
hollow echo wandering among the bills, and that sounds the most blood-curdling
of all
SOURCE: George W. Cable, “A Woman's Diary Of The Siege Of
Vicksburg”, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXX, No.
5, September 1885, p. 772
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