HDQRS. THIRTEENTH A.
C., Near Vicksburg, July 1, 1863.
Lieut. Col. JOHN A.
RAWLINS, A. A. G., Dept. of the Tennessee:
COLONEL: I have the
honor to send to headquarters two prisoners, with a black boy, captured near
the mouth of Big Black by Maj. James Grant Wilson, Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry,
while attempting to cross the river in a canoe. Major Wilson found a few
letters in the possession of the prisoners, which are inclosed for the
information of the major-general commanding.* If the statements in the letters
of the amount of rations (and the black boy says it has been but one-quarter
pound of bacon and meal each for ten days past) can be relied on, the
information is valuable. It is strongly corroborated by the statements of
deserters for some days past.
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