City is full of rats, but the largest group of them are circling the city , been circling for the past many months. We use to light off lights and fire off our guns to celebrate our Independence, now all i can think of is the parrot shells exploding over the church spires that the federals used for ranging before moving to shelling more civilian targets in the city. Hear Grant even got upset when some of the prisoners we took died to his own shelling of the churches. Moved some of our boys to the front of their lines in retaliation, were in the city is safe if they will not even leave the house of God undefiled.