McPherson's army
corps guard this place (Vicksburg) while Sherman has gone after the rebel
General Joe Johnston who is reported as being in the neighborhood of Jackson,
Mississippi, with an army. The prisoners here are to be paroled and sent into
the Confederacy. My time is taken up with visiting points of interest,
particularly the caves in the sides of the hills where the citizens took refuge
when they had a bombardment and where many of them slept at night. Many houses
show the marks of shells, some being completely riddled, yet I am surprised to
see so little damage is done. Some of the caves were made very comfortable,
people living in them almost altogether during the whole siege.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 20
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