Letter, to Father from Lee McNicholl, Sept. 6, 1862

Vickburg, Mississippi. Writes "It seems to be the oppinion of everybody but myself that this war will soon be ovver..." Describes activies ofthe ironclad fleet about Vicksburg, and says that guns have been mounted by the Rebels all over Vicksburg. He expresses the view that it "begins to look like a hard case for Mr. Yank. Our boys have got so used to shells and shrapnell that they mind them not half so much as the sandflies and confounded gnats.