Box 1

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He is on guard duty, encamped about ten miles from New Orleans, on the same side of the river. Describes the fort.

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The weather is hot, and mosquito bars are a necessity in their tent. Mentions fighting at Corinth, about which they get telegraphic dispatches. The camp has just received orders to pack up and to the other side of the river -- the boat is waiting at the landing so he must hurry.

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His camp has just received orders to be ready to march tomorrow, with rations for ten dats. Does not know where they are going.

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Reads:"We have arrived safely at the mouth of Red river. We have got a cart and are going on this morning. Captain White is on his way to Vicksburg. I am in a hurry so, goodbye"

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There has been no serious fighting even though there is a fleet about five or six miles below. He notes that the large fleet 'above' is "far more formidable." Portions of this letter are mutilated but one sentence says "all the boys are sick....."

Scope and Contents Mississippi Springs, forty-five miles from Vicksburg. Writes: "I am getting well and soon expect to go to camp. Our company has been doing badly, five of them having died within the last three weeks. Besides nearly one half are sick. The Yankees have been bombarding Vicksburg steadily for the last three weeks. It was estimated that in three days they thre some fifteen thousand shells some of them fifteen inches in diameter besides some of their frigates have strafed our Batteries and joined...

Scope and Contents Mississippi Springs, State of Mississippi. Expects to go to camp "day after tomorrow." Goes on: the Linconites have been casting an ancious eye on Vicksburg for the last eight weeks. They have been shelling it almost constantly in that time, however not doing much damage except knocking the city to pieces, very few of our men killed only some ten or tweleve in all." He says his cimpany has "seen hard times" because of sickness. About hald of them have been in hospital and six have died of...

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Thanks her and his father for clothing and money sent, but says he needs no money as his pay is sufficient. The Yankees have left Vicksburg and "we do not expect them back until fall or high water"

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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.

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This collection comprises copies of letters and other documents relating to Lee McNicholl's service in the Confederate Army between 1862 and 1864. The letters were written by Nicholl to family members and include accounts of his travels with the Confederate Army in Mississippi (Corinth and Vicksburg) and Louisiana (Shreveport).