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Re: Curious Vicksburg Correspondence

The sounds of battle were heard in the other direction as well. I just read a Union report of one of Sherman's units in Jackson, reporting hearing the battle about 16 or 20 miles away, of course they were in contact with those Union forces in the fight and had an idea where it was, and the report was written after the battle. The problem with sound at that distance is determining, especially in the hilly landscape and heavily wooded of central Mississippi, where it is coming from. Sound bounces off of clouds, and the terrain, and travels faster down rivers and large formations of water. determining exact azmuth and distance would take instrumentation they did not have in 1863.

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David Upton

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