Diary of Private Lewis C. Paxson, Thursday, March 5, 1863

Very snowy. The Sibley D. T. relief train arrives with news of the fall of Vicksburg. Rumor that M. T. Thomas, our colonel, is enroute for Ft. Abercrombie. I cut my wood. I got out five lines of Virgil, commencing 75, book 2.

SOURCE: Lewis C. Paxson, Diary of Lewis C. Paxson: Stockton, N.J., 1862-1865, p. 13