My Cave Life in Vicksburg, With Letters of Trial and Travel
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    My Cave Life in Vicksburg, With Letters of Trial and Travel
                                            
                            By Mary Ann Webster Loughborough
                            
                                22 Feb, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        It has been said that the peasants of the Campagna, in their semi-annual visits to the Pontine marshes, arrive piping and dancing; but it is seldom they return in the same merry mood, the malaria fever being sure to affect them more or less. Although
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                                                It has been said that the peasants of the Campagna, in their semi-annual visits to the Pontine marshes, arrive piping and dancing; but it is seldom they return in the same merry mood, the malaria fever being sure to affect them more or less. Although I did not leave Jackson on the night of the 15th piping and dancing, yet it was with a very happy heart and very little foreboding of evil that I set off with a party of friends for a pleasant visit to Vicksburg. Less