Jesse Walker and I
went out foraging and succeeded in capturing a shoat. The nigs were left very
destitute and there will be a great deal of suffering if the government does
not feed them. There is a report that Jackson, Tenn., is threatened by Bragg;
that there is fighting there and our communications are cut off, at any rate
troops are on the move, being taken back by rail as fast as possible. There is
a great battle being fought this morning by Burnside's men. They have already
fought one whole day. Burnie has crossed the river and holds Fredericksburg.
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. 19
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