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L. M. Bogart to M. J. Misemer, March 31, 1863, page 1

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L. M. Bogart to M. J. Misemer, March 31, 1863, page 1

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  • Vicksburg March 31 63 Mrs M J Mesimer Dear Sister your letter of 15th came verry duety to hand which found me fat & saucy It was a great pleasure to me read a letter from you yours & Mags both came together It was on the 26th I would have written sooner but I was on pickets & did not return until the 27 & yesterday was so cold that I couldent write. I hav nothing of intrest to write of any consequence we are seeing a little better time now than we did a month ago although we hav a greateal of hard duty to do, on the night of the 27th there was a Herican or something like one swept the valley of the Mississippi It was awful I was on post near the bank of the River watching the Yankee Gunboats the waves run high & the timber fell thick in every direction & on every side but my post was not deserted darkness covered the lonesom Swamps & nothing could bee seene but the keen flash of litening & sudently after followed most horid claps of thunder such was the night of the 27th during the storm there was 9 men killed in Vaughns Brigad 4 of them belonged to Rowans Regiment. a few days before this took plase there was a larg ship & a small Gunboat come up the River from Port Hudson & opened their batteries on our fort at Warrenton but did no harm but while the yankees was fireing there was two Gunboats started from above town too help those that was below & as they past our large Guns tore them up one of them sunk to the bottom of the deep & floated down mortally wounded the crew that was on the one that sank wer all buried in the bottom of the River where they still sleep. Poor fellows they
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The Civil War, fought between the Union and the Confederate States of America, occurred from 1861 to 1865. This collection of items related to that conflict includes correspondence that dates to th...

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