After the surrender I went over their works and fields. I saw the great holes in the ground where our bomb shells had exploded, big enough to contain a two-story building. I saw caves in the hillsides where people had lived during the siege. I saw the ground in places so littered with shot and unexploded shells from our batteries that it was difficult to walk without stepping on them. I saw the trees, many of them, actually girdled by our shot. I picked up one little shell and thought I would take it home with me as a relic. It looked like a mammoth butterfly egg, but it was heavy and had a sinister complexion. Many of our men were injured by those shells, in picking them up and dropping them carelessly onto their percussion points, and so I improved the opportunity one day to give mine to a relic hunter. After the surrender my regiment was moved from the mouth of the Yazoo up onto the Vicksburg hill, but we failed to recover our health. Our men were dying daily, and finally we were ordered to Corinth, Mississippi July 29th, and embarked on transport "Silver Wave" for our new destination, the well men in the regiment not being sufficient and able to care for the sick. THE END. [Illustration] Transcriber Notes: Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. On page 4, "ond" was replaced with "and". On page 4, "smille" was replaced with "smile". On page 4, "Governer" was replaced with "Governor". On page 6, "partiotic" was replaced with "patriotic". On page 7, "departue" was replaced with "departure". On page 7, "and and" was replaced with "and". On page 8, "threshhold" was replaced with "threshold". On page 8, "winodw" was replaced with "window". On page 10, "had" was replaced with "hand". On page 11, "over wrought" was replaced with "overwrought". On page 13, "depresstd" was replaced with "depressed". On page 15, "wierd" was replaced with "weird". On page 17, quotation mark was added before "Better'n I 'spected". On page 18, "wierd" was replaced with "weird". On page 19, a closing quotation mark was added after "they called,". On page 19, "of a of a" was replaced with "of a". On page 27, a period was added after "MAY 19". On page 30, a quotation mark was added before "Damn your bit". On page 33, "windrow" was replaced with "window". On page 36, a quotation mark was added after "With pleasure, madam,". On page 36, "road" was replaced with "rode". On page 37, "centtury" was replaced with "century". On page 46, a period was added after "RIFLE PITS". On page 48, "putrifaction" was replaced with "putrefaction". On page 49, "parrotts" was replaced with "parrots". On page 50, a quotation mark was added after "of your old town.".