Tuesday, 29th—I came in from picket this morning in a rain which continued all day. We learned that a boat twenty miles up the river from Vicksburg, burned and sank last night in midstream, with a large number of lives lost. The boat was loaded with provisions for the army here at Vicksburg.
Downing’s Civil War Diary.–Alexander G. Downing.
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