Orders are very
strict. If caught outside of the pickets the fine is ten dollars. We get up at
4 o'clock in the morning and stack our arms. I am on parole guard today. We
expect to move in a day or two.
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. 25
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