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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The terms of surrender. (search)
The terms of surrender.
I. By John C. Pemberton, Lieutenant-General, C. S. A.
For this letter, addressed to Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Nicholson, the American editor of the Comte de Paris's History of the civil War, we are indebted to General Marcus J. Wright, Agent of the War Department for the Collection of Confederate Records. See General Grant's reply, addressed to General Pemberton, p. 545; also his paper, The Vicksburg campaign, p. 493.--editors. Philadelphia, June 12, 1875.
Dear Sir — I give you with pleasure my version of the interview between General Grant and myself on the afternoon of July 3, 1863, in front of the Confederate lines at Vicksburg.
If you will refer to the first volume of Badeau's life of U. S. Grant, you will find a marked discrepancy between that author's account of it and mine.
I do not fear, however, to trust to the honest memory of any officer then present to confirm the statement I shall make.
Passing over all preceding events, I come at