“…there has been a very destructive Raid on Combahee…,”

June.

       Berkley came up 10 days since for his furlough he looks well and is quiet and as he always has been. He leaves us on Tuesday 9th to return to his Artillery. I am not satisfied that he is in a healthy position but they give the men quinine. We have been very glad to see him.

       Vicksburg holds out finely there has been a very destructive Raid on Combahee¹, Millions of property destroyed & carried off; 6 or 7 hundred negroes by 200 Armed negroes with white Officers.

       We have now been up here a year and think of remaining until the fall, we have a nice little garden and some promising chickens.—

1. Raid on Combahee Ferry that included Harriet Tubman leading an expedition of 150 African American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. (Wikipedia)