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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 46: (search)
xploits equal, if they do not excel, those of Napoleon in his first Italian campaign, and will fire the youth of America as long as our language lives, and history continues to be read. A third attempt was made upon Vicksburg; this time by General Grant, with a large army that insured success. With this army, and a fleet of gunboats, he laid siege to Pemberton. On the 4th of July Pemberton surrendered. This was a terrible blow to us. It not only lost us an army, but cut the Confederacy itroops, meanwhile, so as to cover both Baltimore and Washington. The greatest battle of the war was fought here during the first three days of July. Both parties were whipped, and on the 4th of July, when Pemberton was surrendering Vicksburg to Grant, Lee was preparing to withdraw from Gettysburg for the purpose of recrossing the Potomac. If the battle had been fought in Virginia, Meade would have been preparing, in like manner, to cross the same river, but to a different side. Lee withdrew
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 57: (search)
ston and Wilmington. An attack on City Point, Grant's base of operations, and whence he drew all hto Richmond, to unite his forces with those of Grant. There was nothing to oppose him. In ten dayslumbia, he could have effected a junction with Grant before Petersburg. But the great commander seboroa; the destruction of which communications Grant had so much at heart, and which had been the cch. At Goldsboroa he was still 150 miles from Grant's lines, and he took no further part in the caenandoah, found himself at liberty to join General Grant. He brought with him from 10,000 to 12,000 excellent cavalry. Grant's army was thus swollen to 160,000 men. Adding Sherman's and Schofield'ourselves anywhere? That was the question. Grant's object was to force Lee's right in the vicin right. The final and successful assault of Grant was not long delayed. The lines in the vicini resting now on a point called the Five Forks, Grant, on the morning of Sunday, the 2d of April, ma
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 59: (search)
uns. Lee abandoned his lines, on the 3d of April, and surrendered his army, or the small remnant that was left of it, to Grant, on the 9th, at Appomattox Court-House. The first news we received of his surrender, came to us from the stream of fugit confidence which the troops had in his ability, was enabled to gather around him the fragments of several armies, whilst Grant had been pressing Lee; and but for Lee's disaster would soon have been able to hold Sherman in check very effectually. B A grand jury in Norfolk, Va., found an indictment for treason against General Lee, and but for the interposition of General Grant, he would have been tried, under Mr. Johnson's administration; and probably tried by a packed jury that would have hu of the military portion of the first convention. It was this latter convention which was formally approved, both by General Grant, the Commander-inChief, under whose orders General Sherman acted, and by the Executive at Washington. Confiding in