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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Vicksburg during the siege. (search)
distancing the creations of Ptolemy and Psalmanazar. The Herald had one representing rebel batteries in the streets, rebel redoubts on the same, masked batteries lying around loose, a tall signal station whose architect was the artist, and the Marine Hospital at the wrong end of the town. And every day some new version of victory thrilled across the wires. One hundred women were killed the first day, was one statement; a woman and two children fell at the first fire, said another. General C. C. Auger telegraphed, on the 23d of May, that deserters report that General Pemberton has been hanged by his own men! 3,600 shells lodged in the town in one hour, said somebody else. One paper gave a detailed statement of the amputation of General Sherman's leg. Another said the citizens demand the surrender of Vicksburg, and Pemberton refuses I Another said Pemberton had answered with profane violence the charge of his men shooting poisoned balls. In the city the reports took shape mainly