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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 35 Vicksburg During the Trouble
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Pretty suffocating in there.

We always had eight; eight belonged there.

Hunger and misery and sickness and fright and sorrow, and I don't know what all, got so loaded into them that none of them were ever rightly their old selves after the siege.

They all died but three of us within a couple of years.

One night a shell burst in front of the hole and caved it in and stopped it up.


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