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“A Fit Representation of Pandemonium”: East Tennessee Confederate Soldiers in the Campaign for Vicksburg

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In many ways, that is very much a common soldier’s story. What makes it uncommon, alternatively, is the origin of the men fighting to defend Confederate interests at Vicksburg in 1862 and 1863. These East Tennesseans have never had a voice, since it used to be the victors from their element of the state who wrote the histories. Their service at Vicksburg used to be primarily as infantrymen, but some participated as cavalry scouts, others as artillerymen. These men experienced unrelenting bombardment and sharpshooter fire within the trenches around Fortress Vicksburg, or stood picket, or participated with valor in battles at Chickasaw Bayou, Baker’s Creek, or desperate sorties at midnight between the lines. The use of quite a few letters home, reminiscences, records, and diaries kept throughout the long hours within the hot and filthy ?ditches?, a story emerges of sacrifice and adaptability, of boredom and submission to inevitability. They fought valiantly for Mississippians who steadily despised and belittled them.

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