Confederate Soldiers Letter Confederate soldiers letter 1+pp. 8vo on crude Confederate paper Vicksburg, July 14 1862in pencil Freeman Williams [31st Reg. Miss Inf.] writes his mother all of our sick are improving very fast. are on picket 4 miles from camp I went down to the river this morning there are 7 or gunboats laying at anchor and about 13 transports Their music can be heard across th river Vicksburg is no more the place it use e. 11