Description
In 1862 the Dixie Rebels of DeSoto Parish left for New Orleans. They and other Louisianians were formed into regiments and dispatched for Vicksburg. Within the year that followed, the troops witnessed the shelling of Vicksburg by Union gunboats, the outbreak of disease, the lonely heroics of the Confederate ironclad Arkansas, the day-to-day drudgery of camp life, and Jeff Davis’s discuss with to the beleaguered city.
With immediacy and in intriguing detail several correspondents describe day-to-day life Within the trenches from their individual perspectives throughout every of the forty-seven days of the siege. Yet their stories don’t end with the capitulation of the city, but continue in an epilogue as the troops return home after which continue their service for the balance of the war. Their experiences transcended their very own worlds. These young men of Louisiana still have something necessary to let us know.