Huntsville, Saturday, May 14. Worked hard on fort all day, it fast approaching completion. Rifle pits are being dug completely around it, enfilading all the principal streets of the town. All the contrabands out. One volunteer citizen has been at work three days, honorable exception. Another sprig of chivalry working with the negroes under guard for saying that no ”d—n Yankee could make him work”. Yankee bayonet did it though. Reports of struggle fierce and wild still reach us from Grant. Highly successful but the slaugter is terrible. One year ago to-day we entered the haughty capital of Mississippi after deadly fight.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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