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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
y should attempt to escape on Herron's front, and no more deserters were received. At ten o'clock of Saturday, the 4th of July, If it should be asked why the 4th of July was selected as the day for surrender? the answer is obvious. I believ4th of July was selected as the day for surrender? the answer is obvious. I believed that upon that day I should obtain better terms. Well aware of the vanity of our foes, I knew they would attach vast importance to the entrance, on the 4th of July, into the stronghold of the great river, and that, to gratify their national vani4th of July, into the stronghold of the great river, and that, to gratify their national vanity, they would yield then what could not be extorted from them at any other time. Pemberton's report. the anniversary of American independence, the garrison of Vicksburg marched out of the lines it had defended so long, and stacked its arms in fronampion's hill, and on the 25th, recrossed the Big Black river, and once more went into camp near Vicksburg. On the 4th of July, the great mass of troops employed on this expedition were in the trenches before Vicksburg, where for two months they
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
eral Taylor replied that he would punish all such acts, disgraceful alike to humanity and the reputation of soldiers; but declared that officers of the Confederate states' army were required to turn over to the civil authorities, to be dealt with according to the laws of the states wherein such were captured, all negroes captured in arms. The Secretary of the Treasury, Honorable Salmon P. Chase, was strongly in favor of allowing trade to be carried on in the conquered regions. On the 4th of July, he wrote to Grant: I find that a rigorous line within districts occupied by our military forces, from beyond which no cotton or other produce can be brought, and within which no trade can be carried on, gives rise to serious and to some apparently well-founded complaints. The secretary, therefore, urged the propriety of substituting bonds, to be given by all persons receiving permits, for the rigorous line now established; or, at least, of substituting them partially. Grant, however, h