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Laura Gibson's correspondence to her mother, June-August 1863

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Camp 3 miles rear of Vicksburg 
June 20th 1863.  
My dear Mother 
Thee sees that I am safely with Will without one bit of trouble either I wrote thee from Memphis telling of our faring to that place.  We were very fortunate there in finding a boat going out the next day.  We went on board and it was crowded with Officers & Paymasters among the rest was Genl. Ord and staff - One of his Staff was an old 15th Iowa man - I had a long talk with the Genl. and found him very pleasant he was in citizen's dress & put on no airs whatever.  He has relieved Genl. McClernand who is at-outs with Genl. Grant and is now on his way to Washington -  feeling very much abused.  At Helena we were put in charge of a Gunboat and conveoyed to Lake Providence.  There was but one lady on board besides ourselves and we met with every attention.  The Capt. of the Gun boat was introduced to us and he invited us to go on board of his boat and showed us all over it - then gave us a cordial invitation to tea - which we accepted but before tea time it began to storm so hard and blow so that we could not go on board.  We anchored

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Camp 3 miles rear of Vicksburg June 20th 1863. My dear Mother Thee sees that I am safely with Will without one bit of trouble either I wrote thee from Memphis telling of our faring to that place. We were very fortunate there in finding a boat going out the next day. We went on board and it was crowded with Officers & Paymasters among the rest was Genl. Ord and staff - One of his Staff was an old 15th Iowa man - I had a long talk with the Genl. and found him very pleasant he was in citizen's dress & put on no airs whatever. He has relieved Genl. McClernand who is at-outs with Genl. Grant and is now on his way to Washington - feeling very much abused. At Helena we were put in charge of a Gunboat and conveoyed to Lake Providence. There was but one lady on board besides ourselves and we met with every attention. The Capt. of the Gun boat was introduced to us and he invited us to go on board of his boat and showed us all over it - then gave us a cordial invitation to tea - which we accepted but before tea time it began to storm so hard and blow so that we could not go on board. We anchored