We received orders
to pack up and be ready to move down town this morning, where we were to be
quartered and remain as provost guard. We marched down about 8 o'clock and secured
our quarters. Sixteen, including Frank and myself, took a room upstairs in an
old grocery with an old stove. During the day we fixed our bunks and got some
benches from a church close by, and by night had things quite comfortable.
LaGrange comes nearer to being like a northern town than any other I have seen
in the South.
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. 13-14
