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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 23: (search)
f Vicksburg. Pemberton entrapped there. siege and surrender of Vicksburg. confidence of the garrison restored. prospect of relief from Johnston. how it was visionary. two assaults of the enemy repulsed. painful operations of siege. sufferings of the garrison. Johnston has some hope of extricating the garrison. Taylor's attack and repulse at Milliken's Bend. Pemberton's despatch to Johnston. the reply: something may yet be done to save Vicksburg. Johnston prepares to attack on 7th July. Pemberton surrenders on Fourth of July. his conference with Grant. a terrible day's work. extent of the disaster to the Confederate cause. surrender of Port Hudson. other events in the region of the Mississippi connected with the fall of Vicksburg. operations in the Trans-Mississippi. battle of Helena. object of Gen. Holmes' movement on Helena. an extraordinary march. an extraordinary council of war. Gen. Price protests against an attack. he is ordered to take Graveyard fort.
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 27: (search)
y-five killed and twenty wounded. At sunrise on the 4th July, Gen. Morgan moved on Lebanon. The Federal commander here-Col. Hanson-made a desperate resistance; placing his forces in the depot and in various houses, and only surrendering after the Confederates had fired the buildings in which he was posted. About six hundred prisoners were taken here, and a sufficient quantity of guns to arm all of Morgan's men who were without them. Rapid marches brought Morgan to Bradensburg on the 7th July; and the next day he crossed the Ohio, keeping in check two gunboats, and dispersing a force of militia posted with artillery on the Indiana shore. When the pursuing column of the enemy, which had increased now to seven regiments and two pieces of artillery, reached the banks of the river, it was to find the passenger boat on which Gen. Morgan had effected a crossing in flames, and to see far back on the opposite shore the rear-guard of his force rapidly disappearing in the distance. On