I am looking for letters, diaries, journals, newspaper articles, and reminiscences by soldiers and officers from the following Illinois regiments for the period of the Vicksburg Siege, May 20-July 4, 1863:

4th Division, XVI Army Corps. 14th Illinois, 15th Illinois, 28th Illinois, 32nd Illinois, 41st Illinois, 46th Illinois, 53rd Illinois, 76th Illinois, Batteries E and K, 2nd Illinois Light Field Artillery.

12th Division, XIII Army Corps. 87th Illinois.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration
War Between the States Historian
Research - Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment