An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Vicksburg, Wednesday, Sept. 9. —— and —— drunk and noisy. Lieutenant Hood endeavored to arrest ——, but he ran away. Corporal Neefe chased him over the hills awhile and returned, when King, corporal of the guard, with three men, tried it, but with no better success. They then returned to camp. When —— thought pursuit was bandoned, he returned, when three guards with sabres arrested him, but he got away, putting them at defiance, running over the hills yelling like a maniac. Lieutenant Hood now mounted the guards, and after a good deal of running and more excitement, he halted from exhaustion and attacked the guards, Proctor and Richardson. At this time quite a mob of ——sympathizers made for the guards and interfered, but were finally subdued, and in the afternoon Hood took ——, —— and ——to the Provost Marshal, and they are to-night locked up in jail. Army regulations read at roll call.