Excerpt from War Experiences and the Story of the Vicksburg Campaign From Milliken's Bend to July 4, 1863; Being an Accurate and Graphic Account of Campaign Events Taken From the Diary of Capt. The day we left home for the war was an event ful one, and the incidents crowded into that day will never be eff-aced from my memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.