Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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And Williams himself is something of a martinet.
He is a strict disciplinarian.
He does not earn the love of many of his soldiers.
Now, he has good reason to try to impose discipline and to train them a drill.
On the other hand, sort of new soldiers don't like there's a kind of rough seasoning that goes on as you know, these are all volunteer men and they don't like entering the army and having officers ordering them about.
So there is, I would say it's not the most well-organized and sort of knowledgeable force that the union has.
And this is true all the way through the summer.
There's a lot of tension within the ranks.
And with local civilians.
And with local civilians.
The provost marshal here,
passes repeated orders trying to kind of keep civilians and soldiers separate.
I mean, I've been over to the LSU archives, and there are at least two or three separate proclamations compelling civilians not to sell alcohol to soldiers.
And of course, this is because the civilians need a way to make money.
Soldiers are happy to buy alcohol, but drunk soldiers armed amidst a hostile enemy is not a good mix.
And from the provost marshal's perspective, I don't want drunk soldiers sort of roaming the city at night.
And the only place they're getting alcohol is from locals, you know, and it's sort of bad for everybody, but everybody does it anyway.
So the Confederates are well ensconced in Vicksburg, which is quite a ways upriver.
As I said earlier, they are very confident of that position, but they are also watching the Union advance upriver from the south.
And Earl Van Doren in command at that moment at Vicksburg
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