I came in from
picket this morning in a rain which continued all day. We learned that a boat
twenty miles up the river from Vicksburg, burned and sank last night in
midstream, with a large number of lives lost. The boat was loaded with
provisions for the army here at Vicksburg.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 145
"Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, September 29, 1863"
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