On this day in the Civil War, Federal artillery increases shelling the besieged city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
A civilian observer, in describing the condition of the population of Vicksburg, says, “There were some stores that had supplies, and the prices climbed steadily, but first nobody had the money, and then nobody had the supplies.”
Shirley House
Vicksburg, MississippiÂ
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