On picket guard
today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's
division is coming up and passing through. Our old brigade (Col. Stevenson's)
also passed. A train came in a little after dark and was loaded with cotton.
The country is stripped of everything and so we are on half rations. All the
hogs and live stock have been killed. The Negroes are suffering and I think
they would welcome their old masters. There are a great many leaving, a large
carload left today. We have poorer fare than at any time since we enlisted.
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. 21
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