While I was looking
out of the window this morning at some recruits for the 48th Indiana, whom
should I see but John Metternich of our old company. (Co. E, 12th Ind.) He was
as much surprised as I; the last time I saw him, his head was bruised and
bleeding as the result of a spree. This morning a band of guerillas came up
within about two miles of this place, captured a number of mules and burned the
cotton they were hauling.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p. 14
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