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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
300,000, according to the estimate of a contemporary, which we take to be not very wide of the truth. Of these Grant has had, from time to time, 215,000 in the army which he commands in person. If he could not take this one city with all that force, assuredly Lincoln ought not to bear the blame. Neither is Grant to blame. The Yankee nation, and their newspapers, and their Congress, are to blame far more than Lincoln, or Grant, or Butler. One year ago Grant with 85,000 men, shut up Pemberton, who had already lost 9,000 men in battle against overwhelming odds, with a remnant of 18,000 in the town of Vicksburg. After having attempted to carry the works by storm, and having been repulsed with immense slaughter on the 25th of May, he was afraid to try it again. He drew lines of enormous strength around the city, the horns terminating on the river, where lay one of the most powerful fleets of modern times. There he lay, receiving reinforcements every day, for six weeks, until th