Vicksburg: Southern Stories of the Siege

“The heroes in this book are representative of all who endured the horrors and miseries of the Siege of Vicksburg and the events that led to it. The yare people like Rev W.W. Lord, who, though Northern-born, cast his lot with his Southern parishoners and continued to comfort and feed his flock while shells burst all around; women such as Mary Loughborough and Emma Balfour and Dora Miller who kept personal accounts of the daily events, both tragic and amusing; of children such as 12-year old Caleb Perkins Jr. who without due cause was kept in a Yankee prison for months; and the always loyal servants such as George, who protected his ownders at great risk, and Julia Mason a young black woman whose arm was blownoff by a shell as she nursed Confederate wounded.
These stories were first written as a series of the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Siege of Vicksburg, an event sponsored by the Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society.” – Gordon Cotton