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CHAPTER VI.
Events of 1S63—The Siege of Vicksburg—Anecdotes about Gens. Logan,
Stevenson and Grant—Little Rock Captured—Recruiting at Fort
Snel-ling—The engager e t at I’itzhugh’s Woods—Pine Bluff—Winter
Quarters at Duvall’s Bluff—Death of Lincoln—Close of the War—The
Third Regiment Disbanded.
In the month of December the officers were exchanged and
ordered back to Port Snelling, to where the enlisted men had
also returned from the Indian war. In January, 1863, we
again left Minnesota for the South. The whole of this
winter and the beginning of spring were devoted to expeditions
against guerillas and Confederate recruiting camps in
southern Tennessee. Most of this time I commanded the rcgi
nient, four companies of which were mounted. We had to
procure horses as best we could, here and there through the
country. We had many skirmishes with the enemy, and
captured a number of prisoners.
In the beginning of June we joined the forces that were
lie-sieging Yicksburg under the command of Gen. Grant, and
remained there until that city had capitulated. The siege of
Yicksburg is so well known from history that I shall make
no attempt to describe it here. For five consecutive weeks
the cannonading was so incessant that the soldiers became
as accustomed to it as the passengers 011 a steamer to the
noise of the propeller, and, when the capitulation finally put
an end to all this noise, we found it very difficult to sleep for
several nights on account of the unusual silence.
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