MY CAVE LIFE
IN
VICKSBURG.
 
WITH
 
LETTERS OF TRIAL AND TRAVEL.
 
BY A LADY.
 
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
443 & 445 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
1864.
 
 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
 
 
TO ONE
WHO, THOUGH ABSENT, IS EVER PRESENT,
THIS LITTLE WAIF
IS TENDERLY AND AFFECTIONATELY
Dedicated.
 
 
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I.Our Party set out for Vicksburg—The Ride and Scenery—Scenes during the first Bombardment—View of the City and River—Opening of a Battery—The Enemy,9
II.At Night the Signal Gun sounds—The Gunboats are coming down—The Town Awake—Shell Music—The Boats near us—Rapid Descent to the Cave—Theyhave passed safely—Why the Confederate Guns do not fire—The Burning Transport,15
III.Masked Battery on the Opposite Shore—Taking the Cars—Fright of the Negro Porters—Major Watts’s Party—Stampede of Ladies,20
IV.Jackson threatened—Colonel Grierson—General Pemberton departs—My Mind is made up to go also—Ride on the Cars—Vicksburg again,25
V.To Vicksburg again—Aspirations—Troops passing to Black River—General Pemberton orders all Non-Combatants to leave the City,29
VI.Rumors of the Federal Advance on Black River—Gunboats on the River—Cannonading and Fire at Warrenton—General Pemberton’s Forces engaged at Black River,35
VII.Sunday, the 17th—After Church—The Demoralized Army—Soldiers’ Stories,40
VIII....                        
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