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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
am, General, very respectfully, your obedient serv't, U. S. Grant, Maj. Gen'l. Gen. Bowen, the bearer of Gen. Pemberton's letter, was received by Gen. A. J. Smith. He expressed a strong desire to converse with Gen. Grant, and accordingly, while General Grant declining this, requested Gen. Smith to say that if Gen. PemGen. Smith to say that if Gen. Pemberton desired to see him an interview would be granted between the lines, in McPherson's front, at any hour in the afternoon which Gen. Pemberton might appoint. A message was sent back to General Smith, appointing 3 o'clock as the hour. At half-past 3 o'clock General Grant, with his staff and several Generals, went to the rGeneral Smith, appointing 3 o'clock as the hour. At half-past 3 o'clock General Grant, with his staff and several Generals, went to the rendezvous appointed, which was a small vale where fig trees and peach and apricot had bloomed in happier days — a hill on either side. On the crest of either hill, only about four hundred feet apart, were the forts of friend and foe, and beneath these were rifle pits filled with men. It was a strange sight; thousands of men who ha