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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege and fall of Vicksburg. (search)
terms which Gen. Pemberton obtained from the enemy. They form one of the relieving features of this otherwise wholly lamentable affair. These terms being arranged, the men stacked their arms on the 4th. Col. Watkins had an opportunity after the Yankees reached the city of conversing freely with the Federal officers in Grant's army.--From those he learned that the ditching and mining of the enemy had been performed exclusively by negroes, there being as many as 5,000 in that army. Gen. McPherson, the General who superintended the departure of our men from the city, was willing that all the negroes who chose might accompany their masters. It was nothing but right, he said, that freemen, as he contended they were, should make their own election to go from or remain in the city; but in this determination he was overruled, and only the servants of the officers were allowed to go out, if they chose. Col. Watkins's negro man was offered every inducement by the Yankees to remain with