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Natchez is a beautiful city, containing, I *’thousand• IU had not beau visited by lha troops of either side, therefore there iras not so many outward marks of the rebellion thero as in*'■ 11 •' Af It. i * * j k Jl J «a Srf f ’ I f * 51 #t5 * * ^ * r* jk jb iEf!some other localities, though the inhabitantshave and are yet suffering privations knownand felt only in Dixie. A former acquaintance, whoiu I found there, informed me*'$ ' * jh*jk * J t f lt;' * ' . •* * -t r * ▼ Wft ^that there bad not been a nail or spike in the city for more than six months, and that for ths same period there had been neither coffeenor ten on sale there, tie bad resided there; ' v i v wf.'W 7 ~ * It ' w ^for twenty years. I found there at thewharf the transport stsamsr Forest Queen,and her gallant captain and crew—a tioosier boat, tioosier officers and crew, who was thefirst transport that ran the blockade pastVicksburg, thus contributing more to thesuccessful attack on Vicksburg than anyother single action of this war.The boat bears unmistakable marks oftbs terrible ordeal through which she has coipe. One side of her front cabin is en-tirely blown out by a shell that exploded inthe cabin, besides divers holes made by cannon balls in different parts of the boat.The town of Natchez is or rather wase1T
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Delphi Journal
Delphi, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 14, 1863
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Anonymous
WA, USA 10 Jun 2018
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