Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.