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be productive of decisive results. The Mississippi should belong to a single nation. Such had been the first cry of the volunteers from the North-western States at the news of secession. This wish was realized, and by the same stroke slavery, the cause of the war, received its death-blow. The conquest of the mighty river, which had so unfortunately begun with the combat at Belmont, was completed two years later by the same general who had sustained this first reverse. Columbus and Island No.10, the forts of New Orleans and Memphis, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, have successively fallen. The cannon which bristled over the battlements of these citadels have been silenced for the remainder of the war. Before closing we may sum up in a few words the six months campaign which has led to this great result. In January, 1863, we find Vicksburg stronger than it had ever been: Grant has not succeeded in reaching the place by land, and Sherman has sustained a bloody check amid the surro