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1 innewsensJen,ght;theridenammgsughilia-! Oft ofpre-I Ofofallnr asJil-U.iNatchez is a beautiful city, containing, I^ ^ suppose, some twenty thousand inhabitants. It hadinot bean visited by the troops of eitherside, therefore there was not so many outward marks of the rebellion thero as insome other localities, though the inhabitantshave and are yet suffering privations knownand felt only in Dixie. A former acquaintance, ejrboiu I found there, informed me that there bad not been a nail or spike in.thecity for more than six months, and that for ^0U the same period there had been neither coffeenor ten on sale there. He had resided therefor twenty years. I found there at thewharf the transport steamer Forest Queen, and her gallant captain and crew—a Hoosierboat, Hoosier officers and crew, who was thefirat 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 ofthe terrible ordeal through which she has come. One side of her front cabin is entirely 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 wassubscTilTITYPUB
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Delphi Journal
Delphi, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 14, 1863
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WA, USA 15 Jun 2018
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