Chapter I: Front Matter

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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--They have 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. Fresh Troops from Warrenton for the Intrenchments--
"We'll Protect You"--Fears, 46

IX. The Ball in Motion--View from the Court House--Federal
Prisoners sent across the River--Movements of Gunboats, 49

X. Groundless Fear of an Attack by Gunboats--Shells
fall--The Bombardment begins--Cave Shelter--Garrison
Force--Cave and Cave Life, 55

XI. Buried Alive--House Breaking--Appearance of Shell at
Night--Under the Root of a Fig Tree, 63

XII. Fire at Night--A Narrow Escape--Moonlight--Shells
from the Battle Field--Employment and Traffic, 69

XIII. Shells from the Rear of the City--Providential
Deliverance--Pantomime--Pea Meal--Hospital Accident, 73

XIV. Dogs--Horses--Descent of a Shell through a Cave--A
Mother's Cries--Deserted Homes--Silence, 78

XV. An Excitement--Sinking of the Cincinnati--Sky Parlor
Hill--Moving Prospects, 84

XVI. Fall of a Shell at the Corner of my Cave--Music--
Casualties of the Day, 89

XVII. Ride to the Fortifications--Number of Caves along the
Road--Appearance of the New Home--Change of Missiles, 94

XVIII. Morning--Charge of General Burbridge--Horrors of
War--An Important Discovery, 99

XIX. An Acceptable Present--Hunger--Half Rations--In the
Rifle Pits, 105

XX. A Rainy Morning--A Waterspout--Dismal Experience--
Brighter Prospects--An Unfortunate Sleeper, 109

XXI. Weary--The Couriers from General Johnston--Dangerous
Pasturage--Mule Meat--Local Songs--Missed by a Minie
Ball, 114

XXII. A Wounded Horse--Shrapnell Shells--Charge on the
Intrenchments--Fearful Firing, 122

XXIII. An Unhappy Accident--The Unfortunate Ladies of
Vicksburg--Approach of Mortar Shells near the
Intrenchments, 128

XXIV. Death of a Faithful Servant--Blowing up of a Fort--Loss
of Prominent Officers--Surrender of Vicksburg, 135

XXV. A Fright--George my Protector--A Polite Soldier gets
the Tent Fly, 143

LETTERS OF TRIAL AND TRAVEL, 147

MY CAVE LIFE IN VICKSBURG.

MY CAVE LIFE IN VICKSBURG.