VICKSB&R& DURING TH& TROUBLE.

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cave-refuges in the clay precipices, etc. The caves did good service
during the six weeks' bombardment of the city—May 18 to July 4,
1863. They were used by the non-combatants—mainly by the
women and children j not to live in constantly, but to fiy to for safety
on occasion. They were mere holes, tunnels, driven into the per-
pendicular clay bank, then branched Y shape, within the frill. Life

THE KIVEB WAS TJNDISTUBBKD

in "Vicksburg, during the six weeks was perhaps—but wait; here are
some materials out of which to reproduce it:—
Population, twenty-seven thousand soldiers and three thousand
non-combatants; the city utterly cut off from the world—walled
solidly in, the frontage by gunboats, the rear by soldiers and
batteries; hence, no buying and selling with the outside; no passing
to and fro; no God-speeding a parting guest, no welcoming & coming