July 3 — Things are rocking along as usual this morning. 10 o’clock General Pemberton sent out a flag of truce requesting General Grant to cease firing on our hospital. All was quiet up until 1 o’clock p.m. — 3 o’clock p.m. Heavy cannonading along the river. 6 o’clock p.m. — Pemberton now sends out another flag of truce trying to make a compromise preparatory for a surrender. 7 o’clock we now go to the trenches. All is very quiet now. WRC
Civil War Diary of William Raleigh Clack, defending Vicksburg.
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