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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The full of Vicksburg — additional particulars. (search)
The full of Vicksburg — additional particulars.
Vicksburg did not surrender on the 4th of July. The garrison espitulated on the 3d instant, between 4 and 6 o'clock P. M. It is stated that Grant had made preparations for a grand assault on the next day. From the Jackson (Miss) correspondent of the Mobile papers, we have the following accounts:
I have conversed with some of the officers who have come out, and they say that when the men rose from the trenches, where they had been for thirty-eight days, without ever being relieved, and marched out to stack their arms, one third of them reeled and staggered like drunken men from famine and exhaustion, and many of them fall to the ground unable to rise against, but when the guns were stacked, and the color-bearers marched up to lay their tattered and worn banners upon the slack, then, and not till then, did they seem to know and feel that all that they had struggled and suffered for for many long and dreary days and weeks was los