June 8 — Things are going on as usual this morning. Another man of Co. D. was wounded this morning. 7 o’clock p.m. firing pretty rapid at this hour. We have received intelligence from Johnston and also from other points of a late date by the grapevine telegraph which is very cheering. It is said that an English fleet of boats have come over to our aid and are now in possession of New Orleans and General Lee has nearly destroyed the Yankee army in Virginia. Genl. Price has got possession of Helena above here on the Mississippi river; also that Genl. Loring has retaken Snider’s Bluff on the Yazoo. W.R.C.
Civil War Diary of William Raleigh Clack, defending Vicksburg.
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