1st Lieutenant and ADC, with General John C. Pemberton during the siege of Vicksburg. Diary a gift in 1974. Posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. Transcribed by Mary Roy Edwards. Comments by Terrence J. Winschel, National Park Service, Vicksburg. Additional information on Taylor appreciated.
The Special Collections Dept. of the University of Virginia Library holds over 25 Civil War diaries and thousands of letters of both Union and Confederate soldiers. Noted holdings include letters of Robert E. Lee, papers of "Gray Ghost" John S. Mosby and Confederate Generals Thomas L. Rosser, Elisha F. "Bull" Paxton, and Philip St. George Cocke, and William S. Hillyer of Ulysses Grant's staff.
Remarkably quiet all day. At 3 at night fierce bombardment of city by Parrrott guns -- their line of fire about 2 miles -- much injury done to the houses, --comparatively little loss of life thereby.
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