Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Vicksburg” in chapter 7, page 196 of General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War:
...would be an impolitic confession of weakness.
Whatever may have been written subsequently by Lieutenant-General Pemberton, was intercepted or lost.
The last dispatch received from him while in Vicksburg was that of the 22d.
The only intelligence I received from Port Hudson, during the siege, was given by a dispatch from
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